[Fedora-xen] Goodbye Xen on RH/Fedora?

[Veli-Pekka Kestilä]

Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:04:34PM +0200, Neil Thompson wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:51:07AM +0100, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:44:35AM +0200, Neil Thompson wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:15:00AM +0000, Evan Lavelle wrote:
>>>> RHEL (and CentOS) 5.3 has support for Fedora 10 (and above) domUs, and Fedora 11
>>>> should have, as well.
>>>>         
>>> Just there is at least one critical problem with Fedora 10 DomU and also one
>>> for Fedora 9 DomU, so Fedora 10 kernels can't run stable. :(
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478414
>>>
>>>       
>> Your problem is with an F8 Dom0...
>>     
>
> Not exactly. On my F8 Dom0 Fedora 10 works well with latest fc8 domU kernel.
> Just when trying to boot and run .fc10. PAE or x86_64 kernel, it fails
> in less than 48 hours.
>
>   
I would really recommend you to change the Dom0 to be CentOS 5.2 or 
newer, Fedora 8 has been "Dead" about ½-month allready and will not get 
any updates be it KVM, QEMU or Xen. So the bugs will not be fixed and 
there will be no security updates for F8. I have some virtual 
environments running still vith Xen and F7 or F8, but will migrate them 
soon to CentOS for stability and long term support and I quite much 
expect them to be still supported 5-years from now.

Also I don't think kvm will be that different or hard to learn if it 
becomes to that. It actually has paravirtual network drivers for windows 
from Qumranet which you can get without extra fee so I think if you are 
having windows clients it could be way to go in future. For xen you need 
to pay to Novell for that priviledge.

So all in all I think for me this aquisition is good news. I think most 
problems with xen comes from xensource as it's they only product 
generating income and for that reason the opensource version seems to 
get less care than the version you can buy from them. (This is just my 
opinion so it's not necessarily so)

Greetings,
Veli-Pekka