Ned Slider wrote:
*If* xen is not included in RHEL6 then it will, by definition, be deprecated in favour of KVM irrespective of whether (or not) RH continues to support it throughout the life of RHEL5. Note that xen was dropped (not deprecated, dropped) in Fedora 10, read into that what you will :)
Ned, this is not true. Fedora10 does have DomU support for Xen, dom0 support wasent ready in time, the timeline does indicate that Fedora11 will bring dom0 support back pending xen on paravirt_ops running production grade. But then once that happens, it does not really matter, since I'd expect most of Xen to get upstreamed into the mainline kernel - making distro support kind of academic.
Also, fedora10 contains all of xend and libvirt support, so if anyone wants to bring in a kernel specially built for it, all the userland and setup is already in place.
Xen isnt going anywhere - Redhat and others have put in major efforts into making it work and as far as I can see, while kvm might be a far superior platform, its only an 'alternative' platform. Not the replacement one.
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