Hey Lars,
thank you very much for answering. I will read the blog posts and get back
to you if there are further questions.
Thank you
Thomas
2013/7/27 Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>
> Thomas,
>
> this is a very good question. Sorry for answering late : was travelling.
> First of all, most of the development of XenServer happens already as part
> of the Xen Project (in the Xen Hypervisor and XAPI sub-projects) and will
> continue to be developed there. See
> http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/06/25/xenserver-org-and-the-xen-project/
>
> If you look at what Enterprise XenServer is, it is essentially a
> distribution of Xen, XAPI, CentOS and other open source components. Then
> there are a number of Windows only components such as XenCenter : for these
> it would not be appropriate to be part of the Linux Foundation Xen Project.
>
> The Xen Project develops Xen, XAPI and other compenents in a similar
> fashion to the Linux kernel. Citrix takes these, tests these and adds some
> extra bits and makes them available as binaries from XenServer.org. But it
> also allows users of XenServers to purchase support from Citrix:
> essentially converting a binary downloaded from XenServer.org into a
> supported commercial variant.
>
> From a Xen Project perspective, allowing Citrix to directly upsell from a
> deliverable that is hosted in a vendor neutral project (aka Xen Project) is
> not the right thing to do. This would create an unfair advantage for Citrix
> in the market place. It would be a bit like arguing that a commercial Linux
> distro should be part of the Linux kernel. And of course there are likely
> commercial reasons for Citrix to want to keep XenServer.org separate from
> the Xen Project.
>
> So the short answer is NO: XenServer is not part of the Xen Project - but
> most of its parts are.
>
>
> > Citrix used fedora as underlying os, would an integration mean that
the
> feature set will also be available on debian / different distros?
> Citrix used CentOS in the installable ISO variant of xenserver. And
> there are already XAPI packages (which delivers a XenServer like
> environment) in Debian and Ubuntu, which is a subset of XenServer. In this
> blog post
>
http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/making-sense-of-xenserver-vs-xenserver-core-vs-citrix-xenserver.htmlCitrix
describes a model, by which they intend to deliver XenServer meta
> packages (called "xenserver-core") into suitable Linux
distributions that
> converts a Linux distro into XenServer without being specific. Whether
> there are concrete plans to support specfic distros, should be asked on
> xenserver.org.
>
> > thank you for illuminating :)
> Hope this answered your question. Feel free to ask for clarification, if I
> didn''t answer it fully. If you ask the same question on
xenserver.org,
> you may also get the Citrix angle
>
> Best Regards
> Lars
>
>
> On 25/07/2013 03:24, Thomas Pöhler wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> i am a bit confused about citrix making their enterprise xenserver
> completely open source. Will this be included into the xen project? Or do i
> mix up things here?
>
> Citrix used fedora as underlying os, would an integration mean that the
> feature set will also be available on debian / different distros?
>
> thank you for illuminating :)
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
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