Comments on: xen and vmware, the linux kernel – the press, the politics, and the facts http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/09/xen-and-vmware-the-linux-kernel-the-press-the-politics-and-the-facts/ saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit (Cicero) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:33:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Buy adderall onlie. http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/09/xen-and-vmware-the-linux-kernel-the-press-the-politics-and-the-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-164067 Buy adderall onlie. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:03:57 +0000 http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/09/xen-and-vmware-the-linux-kernel-the-press-the-politics-and-the-facts/#comment-164067 <strong>Buy adderall onlie....</strong> Buy adderall onlie.... Buy adderall onlie….

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]]> By: IT Insights Blog http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/09/xen-and-vmware-the-linux-kernel-the-press-the-politics-and-the-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-328 IT Insights Blog Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:15:15 +0000 http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/09/xen-and-vmware-the-linux-kernel-the-press-the-politics-and-the-facts/#comment-328 <strong>Are the Xen wars over?...</strong> InformationWeek is reporting that XenSource and VMware have buried the hatchet in their year-long struggle to determine which virtualization API should be incorporated into the Linux kernel. If true, this is good news. However, allow me to express a li... Are the Xen wars over?…

InformationWeek is reporting that XenSource and VMware have buried the hatchet in their year-long struggle to determine which virtualization API should be incorporated into the Linux kernel. If true, this is good news. However, allow me to express a li…

]]> By: Robert Devi http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/09/xen-and-vmware-the-linux-kernel-the-press-the-politics-and-the-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Robert Devi Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:43:06 +0000 http://sbin.reboot.sh/2006/08/09/xen-and-vmware-the-linux-kernel-the-press-the-politics-and-the-facts/#comment-209 In RedHat's case, I think it's simply a case of caution and conservative enterprise thinking, since that's the market which they specialize in. RedHat has stated for years that Linux was ready for the desktop even though every other distro had proclaimed this to be false and (IMO) Fedora was good enough for the corporate desktop since version 1.0. From my understanding, RedHat doesn't consider Xen to be ready until it has the following two things: management tools (like VMWare), Integration into the standard kernel (until this happens, there's always a risk that Xen can become unstable from version to version). The management tools seem to be coming (at least there are a few sourceforge projects that claim to be working on it), but the "Outside the kernel " status is still a big issue, ever for less conservative distros like Ubuntu. Ubuntu originally planned to go with Xen in Edgy (the next version of Ubuntu) but backed out when it notices that patches are not available for the kernel version they want to ship. If I read the specs correctly, Xen will be a "use at your own risk" feature of Edgy. In RedHat’s case, I think it’s simply a case of caution and conservative enterprise thinking, since that’s the market which they specialize in. RedHat has stated for years that Linux was ready for the desktop even though every other distro had proclaimed this to be false and (IMO) Fedora was good enough for the corporate desktop since version 1.0.

From my understanding, RedHat doesn’t consider Xen to be ready until it has the following two things: management tools (like VMWare), Integration into the standard kernel (until this happens, there’s always a risk that Xen can become unstable from version to version).

The management tools seem to be coming (at least there are a few sourceforge projects that claim to be working on it), but the “Outside the kernel ” status is still a big issue, ever for less conservative distros like Ubuntu. Ubuntu originally planned to go with Xen in Edgy (the next version of Ubuntu) but backed out when it notices that patches are not available for the kernel version they want to ship. If I read the specs correctly, Xen will be a “use at your own risk” feature of Edgy.

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