On Mar 19, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:40:04AM -0400, Tim Mackey wrote: >> Historically CloudStack has used Xen and XenServer interchangeably to refer >> to any XenAPI based implementation. With the recent release of Xen Project >> 4.4 (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/03/10/xen-4-4-released/), and >> interest in alternate architectures like ARM, the loose definition of our >> Xen support could be confusing. In this two part effort I propose that >> CloudStack 4.4 be cleansed to ensure that all Xen references become >> XenServer references, and second that an alternate hypervisor type of >> "XenProject" be introduced for pure Xen which could either support libvirt >> or libxl (preference for libvirt given the 4.4 work to improve the >> interface and broader support for libvirt in general). >> >> Cross posted to users to for broader comment. > > Just wondering - will the new Xen be the basis for all XenServer and > XCP references i.e. will they inherit and extend Xen or will Xen be > altogether different in this proposal? Looking forward to the wiki page. IMHO, and sadly, we should treat them as two different hypervisors: XP and XS. > >> >> -tim > > -- > Prasanna., > > ------------------------ > Powered by BigRock.com >
