Virtualization technology has long found a home in Red Hat's Fedora community Linux distribution. Ever since Fedora 4 emerged in 2005, virtualization technologies have continued to advance in the distro and that remains the case with the upcoming Fedora 13 release set for later this month.
Unlike Fedora's early virtualization features, which all leveraged the Xen open source technology, more recent Fedora releases have relied on KVM. New KVM performance and scalability features for virtualization will debut in Fedora 13 that will help to push the envelope for large-scale virtualization deployments.
"If you look at Linux virtualization features, Fedora has always been the vanguard for virtualization," Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields told InternetNews. "We were putting out KVM before anyone else and we were interested in KVM as it seemed like a much more upstream-friendly feature. Although Xen was definitely a virtualization focus for a few years, Xen had some drawbacks."
Frields noted that from Fedora's perspective, Xen had become a drain on resources for developers since it took a lot of work to get Xen to work together with the Linux kernel for a Fedora distribution release. He added that, in his view, the code base for Xen didn't track exactly with the upstream Linux kernel and as a result, there was a mismatch. more.............
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