On 3/21/07, Rik Herrin <rikherrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I was wondering if RHEL had any plans on incorporating either OpenVZ or linux-vserver as part of the kernel for OS level virtualization. I know that there are RPMs that are downloadable that provide this functionality, but these are unsupported by Red Hat. Any ideas? Thanks for your input.
I don't know of any plans by Red Hat to support OpenVZ. Their virtualization strategy seem fairly straightforward and focused on Xen. However they have stated a disire to support KVM in future versions of RHEL (RHEL-6?) because they contribute to the libvirt which is pretty generic. I suspect they'd support OpenVZ if it could be managed by libvirt. I don't know how much life is left in solutions like Open VZ considering the arival of solutions like Xen and KVM. I'll admit that its very fast because of the shared kernel (I use hosting service that uses it for a personal VM) but its just not very flexible. Needing to coordinate with all of the clients for your guest VMs is just alot of organizational overhead. It works well for low SLA hosting companies (I've been happy with mine) or for huge farms of like VMs but doesn't translate well to enterprise customers trying to host many different environments. I just don't see Red Hat investing much time into solutions like OpenVZ. I don't work for Red Hat so this is nothing more than speculation. Russell -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
