Fedora 10 doesn’t include Xen, KVM rules uncontested

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Fedora 10 doesn’t include Xen, KVM rules uncontested

Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | 6 Comments

It may be just a coincidence but the just released Fedora 10 doesn’t include Xen. And this happens just a month after Red Hat unveiled its new virtualization strategy, adopting KVM and acquiring the startup that maintains it: Qumranet.

The reason behind this unexpected drop is explained in the official project newsletter:

No Dom0 Support in Fedora 10

…”There is pretty much zero chance that Fedora 10 will include a Xen Dom0 host. While upstream Xen developers are making good progress on porting Dom0 to paravirt_ops, there is simply too little time for this to be ready for Fedora 10. So if you need to use Fedora 10 as a host, then KVM is your only viable option at this time. If you can wait for Fedora 11 (or use RHEL-5 / CentOS-5) then Xen may be an option for you." …

The distribution lifecycle implies a new major release every six months on average.
This means that Fedora users will have a long time to explore the opportunities that KVM offers. And in the meanwhile Red Hat will be able to further attract them with some new interesting products based on Qumranet technology.

Thanks to Mike DiPetrillo for the news.

Labels: KVM, Qumranet, Red Hat, Xen

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6 Comments

Anonymous Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:56:00 PM

Sorry, but the news only states that there will be no Dom0 support. No word about an exclusion of Xen anywhere. And this isn't very surprising since the linux kernel itself just gained the ability to work as a Dom0. So nothing has really changed - Fedora is supposed to be usable as DomU but not as Dom0. And btw, Feodra ist not "just released" but one once away.

Anonymous Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:31:00 AM

Fedora 8 fully supports XEN including the Dom0 host. In Fedora 9 the support for the Dom0 host had been dropped, but with Fedora 8 there was still a supported version of Fedora with Dom0 support and Dom0 support has been announced for Fedora 10. The support for Fedora 8 ends in december 2008 and Fedora 10 has no Dom0 support. Hence every administrator running a Dom0 host with Fedora will be forced to switch the virtualization software/strategy. This is REALLY bad and KVM is not an alternative.

Anonymous Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:53:00 PM

Could you tell me why you said KVM is not an alternative ?

lewtwo Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:00:00 PM

Unforunately I downloaded Fedora-10-x86_64-DVD.iso for its KVM support. When you run VirtManager and connect local the only options you get are QMENU and XEN. KVM is NOT enabled.

Anonymous Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:23:00 PM

C'mon open source guys, we gotta pull this all together! Beat the big companies to the punch!!!

Anonymous Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:23:00 PM

>> KVM is NOT enabled.
Probably you have to download kvm and kvm_intel modules

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