Linux 3.0 Will Have Full Xen Support

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Posted by timothy on Friday June 03, 2011 @03:20AM
from the complex-mellow-calm dept.

GPLHost-Thomas writes "The very last components that were needed to run Xen as a dom0 have finally reached kernel.org. The Xen block backend was one major feature missing from 2.6.39 dom0 support, and it's now included. Posts on the Xen blog, at Oracle and at Citrix celebrate this achievement."

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Largely irrelevant though (Score:4, Insightful)

by buchanmilne (258619) writes: on Friday June 03, 2011 @05:45AM (#36329344) Homepage

... as most users don't use vanilla upstream kernels. And, most distributors / distros have a supported release which provides Xen Dom0 support (including Red Hat).

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Re:KVM vs XEN (Score:4, Insightful)

by TheRaven64 (641858) writes: on Friday June 03, 2011 @07:51AM (#36329716) Journal

A lot of the Xen developers use KVM. You can run Xen and PV kernels inside KVM, which (apparently) is great for debugging. They're very different tools though. The problem is companies like Red Hat that spread a lot of FUD about Xen and tell everyone to use KVM instead, which makes about as much sense as telling them to use bash instead of vim.

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