Hello. I created a post in OpenSUSE forum(https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/536329-OpenSUSE-forgot-Xen-Virtua...) and I want to know why SUSE preferred a type-2 hypervisor (KVM) over a type-1 hypervisor (Xen).
Thanks.
On 19/06/2019 15:58, Jason Long wrote:
Hello. I created a post in OpenSUSE forum(https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/536329-OpenSUSE-forgot-Xen-Virtua...) and I want to know why SUSE preferred a type-2 hypervisor (KVM) over a type-1 hypervisor (Xen).
Both are provided in openSUSE in the same way, as for SUSE, SUSE has product managers who decide whether or not they will or how they will support / include something based off business cases, it costs SUSE a lot of money to provide L3 support for a lot of software so product managers get to look at how much it will cost to support something vs whether its important enough that customers will pay for that product. I haven't personally looked at how that works for xen but if you are interested in enterprise support for xen you can talk to one of the SUSE sales team.
From an openSUSE perspective, if someone is doing the work it will almost certainly be included, as for your question on what makes it onto the DVD vs what doesn't we have over 20GB of packages which obviously don't fit on a 4.7Gb DVD, so generally the size of the package and its popularity are taken into account from the DVD you can use the "add repo's option" and have everything available or alternatively you can use the net installer which also has everything.
Cheers
On Wed, Jun 19, Jason Long wrote:
Hello. I created a post in OpenSUSE forum(https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/536329-OpenSUSE-forgot-Xen-Virtua...) and I want to know why SUSE preferred a type-2 hypervisor (KVM) over a type-1 hypervisor (Xen).
You are making a big mistake:
openSUSE != SUSE
openSUSE is a community project, and the result is what the community is deciding and doing. And the community is everybody who submits changes, fixes and packages.
If you install a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (so a SUSE product, not an openSUSE product), you can choose between XEN and KVM during installation. So your claim about SUSE and XEN is wrong.
Else the openSUSE Community did wrote in the forum already, that your claim is wrong even for openSUSE and that you are looking at the wrong places. And if you look at the number of users of XEN and KVM, it's pretty clear why KVM is on the DVD and not XEN. It's the reality of how many people are using something.
Thorsten
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