(OT) Re: 2.6.20 for FC6?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Feb 6 21:11:20 UTC 2007


On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:57:18PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:50:39PM -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:33 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > When Xen is rebased.
>  > 
>  > Ah the joy of third-party kernel modules, eh? :)
>  > 
>  > Is there a timeline/plan for upstream Xen kernel inclusion?
> 
> Given xensource just did their first rebase in a long time,
> to 2.6.18, you do the math.   The big question is will
> lguest be useful before Xen gets upstream.  Given the
> current rate of merging, there's a strong chance it could be.

lguest in its current format though isn't really aiming at real world
deployment - its explicitly a research project

http://lguest.ozlabs.org/lguest.txt

 "Lguest is designed to be a minimal hypervisor for the Linux kernel, for
  Linux developers and users to experiment with virtualization with the
  minimum of complexity.  Nonetheless, it should have sufficient
  features to make it useful for specific tasks, and, of course, you are
 encouraged to fork and enhance it.

So while it may be able to do everything Xen can in the future, its not
even remotely near being able to replace Xen. Its not even on the roadmap
to be able to replace Xen. Maybe someone will pick up ideas and develop
it to form for real world usage, but its anyone's guess when this will
be.

Dan.
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