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Re: [Xen-users] Why Xen will deprecated? Is it to old?



There are xen kernels that work in 5.4.  The question is--what
is going to happen when RHEL6 comes out.
There aren't any kernel-xen in Fedora 11, just the xen userland.
Does anyone know? Obviously redhat is keen to push KVM as hard
as they can bue they haven't said they will actually break Xen, have they?

Steve


On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Paras pradhan wrote:

So,

for those who are planing for server consolidation within few months
using RHEL 5.4, KVM would be the good choice or there is no harm on
sticking with Xen?

Paras.


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 06:43:30AM -0600, Nick Couchman wrote:
On 2009/10/20 at 03:42, Jean Baptiste FAVRE
<jean-baptiste.favre@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello,
As I understand the mail, it just seems that specific Dom0 kernel
will
disappear in next Debien stable release.
For the time being, when you want to build a Debian Dom0, you have
to
install a specific "Xen-enabled" kernel.
Starting Squeeze, all these functionnalities will be intergrated in
the
default kernel.

Regards,
JB

Alexandr R. Ogurtzoff a écrit :
Hello,

I'm confused why Xen is deprecated in the next Debian release, does
it
mean Xen dying? What is alternative? KVM?
I've heard RH also is going to promote KVM only in a future
releases.
Can someone elaborate what does it mean?
Thank You in advance.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce/1407

" xen dom 0
+++++++++

This feature will be included in the squeeze kernel release subject
to
ongoing stabilisation work. The feature will be marked as
deprecated
and will not appear in future releases. "

As far as RedHat going KVM, yes, that's the virtualization technology
that RedHat has decided to pursue.  I don't know if that means that Xen
will be completely unavailable in RedHat, or if it just means that KVM
will be the one they push by default in new installations.  If you go to
the linux-kvm.org page, you'll notice the Redhat logo in the bottom
corner - they purchased the company Qumranet, which is the primary
funder of KVM development.


Redhat will support Xen (including dom0) in RHEL5 for the whole
lifetime.. that's until 2014 or so.

RHEL6 will have Xen domU support.. I think. So you can run RHEL6 Xen
domUs on RHEL5 dom0 (or some other dom0).

-- Pasi


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