Re: [Xen-devel] Xen like VirtualBox

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:54 AM, John Haxby <john.haxby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15/11/16 11:17, Jason Long wrote:
>> You said a Red Hat employee and this company like KVM not Xen.
>
> That makes no sense.  You're denying what it says on the
> virt-manager.org web site as well as denying what it says in the
> description of the RPM.   Even the Red Hat RPM for virt-manager says
> that it works with Xen (I'm looking at the RHEL6 source and it says
> "administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and QEmu").
>
> You can choose to avoid anything to do with Red Hat because of their
> preference of KVM over Xen, but, as the English saying goes, that's
> cutting your nose off to spite your face.

To corroborate this, two points:

First, RedHat generally do Open Source properly: They run projects
like virt-manager and libvirt as proper open-source communities, even
when their engineers are doing the lion's share of the work.
Obviously the RedHat engineers focus on functionality which is
important to RedHat.  But it's been my consistent experience that
these projects accommodate work that people from the  Xen community
put in.  The libvirt guys don't actively develop Xen functionality for
libvirt, but if we submit patches they get constructive review, and if
someone else breaks existing Xen functionality they fix it.

Secondly, while Citrix doesn't use virt-manager for Xen, SuSE and
Oracle do (I believe).

If you know of bugs or deficiencies in virt-manager's Xen support,
then please do report them.  But don't dismiss it out-of-hand simply
because RedHat are the main contributors.

 -George

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