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Well, I ment support,

If they don't provide packages, then they likely don't support it, if they don't support it, and your having some problems, will they provide technical assistance? I doubt it.

I just find it curious that they dropped their support for Xen, and am just wondering if I am wasting my time trying to learn Xen,

I'm not sure,

Just seems that the new hardware coming provides plenty of support for type 2's with perhaps minimal overhead?

Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:29:42 +0100
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Why did RHEL drop Xen support?
From: mailinglists.tech@xxxxxxxxx
To: girl111_2002@xxxxxxxxxxx
CC: bailey.alex@xxxxxxxx; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I think they don't will do this. But let's define what is meant when we say they don't support Xen. From the view of Red Hat they simply don't package Xen and don't have Xen kernels in there repository.

But you should be able to simply build Xen and a Dom0/DomU ready kernel on a Red Hat System. So if you have actual Red Hat Systems I think they are on kernel 2.6.X you will need to patch the kernel to get Dom0 support if there are patches available for this version. You also could take a kernel from kernel.org and compile it with Xen support. If the kernel is 3.2+ everything should be in the kernel out of the box so you could rebuild the source packages.

Xen simply can be built from the tarball which can be found at xen.org. Everything should work well with that.

Best Regards

2013/1/29 linbao <girl111_2002@xxxxxxxxxxx>

i wanna know that will redhat get xen back on rhel7????

Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:14:35 +0100
From: mailinglists.tech@xxxxxxxxx
To: bailey.alex@xxxxxxxx
CC: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Why did RHEL drop Xen support?

Hello Alex,

Red Hat dropped the Xen support because of the fact that they are support primary KVM. They are doing this because of a few facts:

1. The most of development on virtualization Red Hat is doing on KVM

2. The design of KVM requires hardware support but is much easier as the design of Xen
3. The code base is much smaller I think.
4. KVM was very early merged to mainline kernel, Xen now also is merged to mainline kernel but in the time where Red Hat dropped Xen only KVM was in mainline kernel.

These are facts were some discussion can be done but I think they are comprehendable.

Best Regards

2013/1/29 Alex Bailey <bailey.alex@xxxxxxxx>

Hey Guys,

just wondering why RHEL dropped support for Xen, does anyone know why or where to find some good answers?

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