Re: [Xen-devel] Xen / EC2 release criteria proposal

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

> "The release must boot successfully as Xen DomU with releases providing
> a functional, supported Xen Dom0 and widely used cloud providers
> utilizing Xen."

I am a long time Xen/Fedora user. In fact, I rely on Fedora as my Dom0. I
acknowledge that there are not too many of us, and I further acknowledge
that mandatory testing often goes unperformed. The Fedora Xen mailing
list is exceedingly low-volume.

Michael Young has in the past done a lot of the heavy lifting surrounding
Xen support, and I am very grateful for his work.

Xen Dom0 is particularly tenuous. Dropping (for a good reason) GRUB's
multiboot2 module left Xen unable to boot under EFI [e.g., 1].

All of that said, there are good reasons to choose Xen over KVM. Xen's
architecture and full support for libvmi come to mind. (Of course,
there are good reasons to choose KVM too.)

Perhaps we could go one more release with the status quo to give the
Xen/Fedora community a last chance to rally and demonstrate a willingness
to perform the necessary testing and maintenance. I suspect we are
all quite busy, so we might find ourselves admitting that broader Xen
support will be relegated to the standard means of maintenance rather
than rising to the status of blockers.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1703872

-- 
Mike

:wq

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