[Oneiric-Topic] Revisit Xen support

Clint Byrum clint at ubuntu.com
Fri Apr 1 23:51:04 UTC 2011


Excerpts from Chuck Short's message of Wed Mar 30 07:27:50 -0700 2011:
> Hi,
> 
> In the past Xen support in Ubuntu as a host has been difficult for a
> variety of reasons most notably no upstream kernel support. Now that
> dom0 should be coming into the vanilla kernel soon. I think its time to
> revisit supporting Xen as a hypervisor as well.

Just playing devil's advocate here.

Other than people already having familiarity with Xen, what is a
compelling reason to support it in favor of, or in addition to, KVM?




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