More on virtualization & Linux. Novell will not support KVM.
And Xen, like Novell, has remade themselves into an MS out-patient forever, tethered by a life sustaining umbilical "partnership" cord...ala de Borg. I find the virtualization evolution highly interesting and the article below informative (I know it is from Cnet, but this one was still informative. ;-) -------------- KVM steals virtualization spotlight http://news.com.com/KVM+steals+virtualization+spotlight/2100-7344_3-6161804.html Some excerpts... KVM has "quickly drawn powerful allies--including Red Hat and Linux founder Linus Torvalds" The world was introduced to KVM "with an October 19 posting to the Linux kernel mailing list. The patch updated Linux so that higher-level software could take advantage of hardware virtualization features built into the latest processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The result: Other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, can be "guests" running on a Linux host foundation, on newer hardware." "Unlike Xen additions to Linux, the KVM patch slipped nearly instantly into the mainstream kernel maintained by Torvalds and a group of deputies." "KVM could distract attention from Xen, which only made its commercial debut in Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server last July and is slated to arrive in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with that product's March release." "While Novell is interested in KVM, it has no intention of supporting more than two virtualization technologies. One of those technologies would be at a sub-operating system layer--as Xen is--and the other would compartmentalize a single operating system, as OpenVZ does." "Red Hat is warmer on KVM" and "contemplating splitting the upcoming Fedora 7 Linux for enthusiasts into two versions, one with Xen and the other with KVM" _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
