[eWeek] Red Hat Isn't Exhibiting 'Xen'-Ophobia
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Opinion: But maybe it should, as the virtualization technology is still in heavy flux.
Red Hat's announcement March 14 of its integrated virtualization push, starring Xen, didn't take anyone by surprise: Red Hat, along with just about everybody else, has been tooting the Xen horn ever since the fledgling open-source virtualization technology began grabbing headlines almost a year ago.
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I'd like to see Red Hat add to its virtualization agenda the OpenVZ project—a GPL'd code base born of SWsoft's 5-year-old commercial Virtuozzo product, which itself is roughly comparable to the containers in Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10.
OpenVZ, which also is vying for inclusion in the mainstream Linux kernel, would complement Xen well and has impressed me in the initial testing I've conducted.
Ultimately, it might make the most sense for Red Hat to deploy both Xen and OpenVZ. The complementary technologies would be a good counterbalance to the Xen/container combo I expect to see eventually in Solaris.
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