Stephen Shankland wrote an article for ZDNet AU entitled Linux heavies plan lightweight virtualisation. Obligatory quote:
I'm glad to see Novell and Red Hat finally starting to take process container virtualization seriously. Hey, even the Xen guy is quoted as calling it "fabulous" in the uses where it is appropriate.
I must admit that I was a little suprised to hear the Red Hat guy call it a RHEL 6 thing. I mean, saying that is making no commitment to it at all... since they can't really see past RHEL 5 right now. Perhaps it was just a PR parry to the SUSE guy's comment.
Luckily the OpenVZ folks having it working now... although a few iterations and a bunch more testing is a good idea.
Once the bigger distros have it as part of their stock kernels... I would hope it would lead to the eventual migration into the mainline kernel... although admittedly with a *LOT* of pain and work in the process of providing it in a manner that Linus and company would find acceptable. Putting it in vendor kernels will validate its usefulness and that's what the mainline kernel developers care about, right?
Say, is it "virtualization" or "virtualisation"?
"It's something that we want to see happen," Red Hat's chief technology officer, Brian Stevens, said in an interview during the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Red Hat hasn't decided whether to use OpenVZ or Vserver, he added.
Xen is the priority for RHEL 5, due to arrive at the end of the year, but after that will come containers, Stevens said. "I'm looking at that as a RHEL 6 thing," he said.
Novell, which wants to maintain Suse's reputation as the first place to find advanced new features for Linux, is more eager and is considering adding OpenVZ in Service Pack 1 of SLES 10. "We are still evaluating if this is something we can take into SP1," said Holger Dyroff, vice president of Linux product management.
I'm glad to see Novell and Red Hat finally starting to take process container virtualization seriously. Hey, even the Xen guy is quoted as calling it "fabulous" in the uses where it is appropriate.
I must admit that I was a little suprised to hear the Red Hat guy call it a RHEL 6 thing. I mean, saying that is making no commitment to it at all... since they can't really see past RHEL 5 right now. Perhaps it was just a PR parry to the SUSE guy's comment.
Luckily the OpenVZ folks having it working now... although a few iterations and a bunch more testing is a good idea.
Once the bigger distros have it as part of their stock kernels... I would hope it would lead to the eventual migration into the mainline kernel... although admittedly with a *LOT* of pain and work in the process of providing it in a manner that Linus and company would find acceptable. Putting it in vendor kernels will validate its usefulness and that's what the mainline kernel developers care about, right?
Say, is it "virtualization" or "virtualisation"?


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Still, we at OpenVZ has just ported our kernel stuff to RHEL4 kernel, and we will do that for RHEL5...
In the United States, it's spelled with a z. In the UK and Australia, it's with an s. Gratuitous forking of English spelling is to blame. The original version of the story (http://news.com.com/Linux+heavies+plan+lightweight+virtualization/2100-7339_3-6108272.html) uses "virtualization."
Stephen Shankland