Hi, ----- "Michael Tautschnig" <m...@debian.org> wrote:
> First of all, I'd like to say a big THANKS to all the people > maintaining Xen > within (in of course also outside) Debian; you really saved us lots of > money and > energy (which is both, electrical and that personal one). > > [...] > > > > > > 4) What will be our preferred server virtualization option for > non-Linux > > > guests after squeeze? Still KVM? > > Yes, virtualized Windows works much better in (modern) KVM than > Xen. > > > > > 5) Do we recommend that new installations of lenny or of squeeze > avoid > > > Xen for ease of upgrading to squeeze+1? If so, what should they > use? > > It depends. KVM in lenny is buggy and lacks important features. > While it > > works fine for development and casual use I do not recommend using > it in > > production for critical tasks. > > This is where Red Hat really beats us: RHEL shipped Xen years ago > but > > recently they released an update which provides a backported and > > stabilized KVM. > > > > > 6) Are we communicating this to Debian users in some way? What > can I do > > > to help with this point? > > Remind people that Xen is dying and KVM is the present and the > future. > > > > As I understand the later mails of Bastian and Ian, this is probably > not an > issue anyway, but still I'd like to note it: Even though KVM may have > a > promising future (on hardware with virtualization support, at least), > there is a > serious need for a nice migration path. It seems impossible to > dist-upgrade to > squeeze and switch from Xen to KVM at the same time. Such a migration path already exists: xenner, but it needs to be packaged, and possibly updated to work with newer Xen hypercalls (such as those introduced since Xen 3.1). I am looking into packaging xenner already as a backup plan if I cannot manage to fix some major reentrancy problems in the Xen dom0 code (Xensource 2.6.18 patches, the pvops stuff has it's own share of problems and needs more evaluation). William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/23104025.2771267222987538.javamail.r...@ifrit.dereferenced.org
