Thomas,
this is a very good question. Sorry for answering late : was
travelling. First of all, most of the development of XenServer
happens already as part of the Xen Project (in the Xen Hypervisor
and XAPI sub-projects) and will continue to be developed there.
See
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/06/25/xenserver-org-and-the-xen-project/
If you look at what Enterprise XenServer is, it is essentially a
distribution of Xen, XAPI, CentOS and other open source
components. Then there are a number of Windows only components
such as XenCenter : for these it would not be appropriate to be
part of the Linux Foundation Xen Project.
The Xen Project develops Xen, XAPI and other compenents in a
similar fashion to the Linux kernel. Citrix takes these, tests
these and adds some extra bits and makes them available as
binaries from XenServer.org. But it also allows users of
XenServers to purchase support from Citrix: essentially converting
a binary downloaded from XenServer.org into a supported commercial
variant.
From a Xen Project perspective, allowing Citrix to directly upsell
from a deliverable that is hosted in a vendor neutral project (aka
Xen Project) is not the right thing to do. This would create an
unfair advantage for Citrix in the market place. It would be a bit
like arguing that a commercial Linux distro should be part of the
Linux kernel. And of course there are likely commercial reasons
for Citrix to want to keep XenServer.org separate from the Xen
Project.
So the short answer is NO: XenServer is not part of the Xen
Project - but most of its parts are.
> Citrix used fedora as underlying os, would an
integration mean that the feature set will also be available on
debian / different distros?
Citrix used CentOS in the installable ISO variant of
xenserver. And there are already XAPI packages (which delivers a
XenServer like environment) in Debian and Ubuntu, which is a
subset of XenServer. In this blog post
http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/making-sense-of-xenserver-vs-xenserver-core-vs-citrix-xenserver.html
Citrix describes a model, by which they intend to deliver
XenServer meta packages (called "xenserver-core") into suitable
Linux distributions that converts a Linux distro into XenServer
without being specific. Whether there are concrete plans to
support specfic distros, should be asked on xenserver.org.
> thank you for illuminating :)
Hope this answered your question. Feel free to ask for
clarification, if I didn't answer it fully. If you ask the same
question on xenserver.org, you may also get the Citrix angle
Best Regards
Lars
On 25/07/2013 03:24, Thomas Pöhler wrote:
