openvz inclusion in fedora or RHEL

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gilboa Davara wrote:

> 
> Rather OT'ish, but considering the recent warm relationship between MSFT
> and XenSource, I've got a very bad feeling about having our virtualized
> (Good one) future dependent on anything-remotely-Microsoft. It's not
> like Microsoft never bribed one company behind closed doors to sue
> OSS/Linux. (*Cough* SCO *Cough*)

The code is available under a GPL license. If upstream gets sour, fork 
it.  Besides, OpenVZ and Xen are not alternatives but complimentary 
virtualisation technologies. Losing either of them is going to hurt.

> Having Fedora adopt, even as a second, less supported option, OpenVZ is
> a good way to hedge off our collective bet. (Plus, it'll go a long way
> to help OpenVZ's patches into the mainline kernel tree)

Having Xen as a patchset is hard enough to maintain and requires a 
entire team of people to baby sit the process. OpenVZ on top of that is 
going is going to be a bad maintenance pain.  There is interest within 
these projects and upstream developers in merging them sharing common 
infrastructure where possible and that would better for all of us in the 
longer term.

Rahul