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Stephen Shankland wrote an article for ZDNet AU entitled Linux heavies plan lightweight virtualisation. Obligatory quote:
"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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k001
Aug. 24th, 2006 04:02 am (UTC)
I had a chance to talk to Brian while I was at LinuxWorld, what he said is "you guys did a great thing, please keep on moving" and "containers will be a part of RHEL6". I do understand why — they are now concentrated on making Xen working for them, and do not want to be distracted from that. That's a pity they haven't done that the other way out — first containers, then Xen — just because containers are less intrusive and thus easier to merge.

Still, we at OpenVZ has just ported our kernel stuff to RHEL4 kernel, and we will do that for RHEL5...

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