Simon Crosby on Xen, KVM, Novell, etc

Can a Chameleon Change its Spots?
I had lunch today with veteran virtualization blogger Alessandro Perilli, who was in the Seattle area for the Microsoft MVP Summit. Alessandro has repeatedly been the first to spot key industry trends. He is truly plugged-in, and brings to his analysis a level of technical insight and honesty that I find refreshing, and he doesn’t sensationalize just to get clicks.
We discussed the recent flurry of reporting on the fact that Novell is also developing for KVM, and it was good to see that Alessandro found this as unsurprising as I do. Novell SUSE Linux is, after all an enterprise Linux distribution. And KVM is just a kernel.org driver that comes with mainline Linux. So it’s logical to expect Novell’s customers to be aware of KVM and to expect them to ship and support it – like any other mainline feature. Indeed Novell’s activity on KVM has never been a secret – they announced a preview of KVM support in SLE 11 and have a roadmap for offering full support in due course.
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