Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 May 2009 13:48:59 +0200 | From | Tomasz Chmielewski <> | Subject | Re: Xen is a feature |
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 05:45:34PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> Mozilla and Debian are hosted on Xen systems. > > A tiny data point about these domains. They are hosted by osuosl.org, > which uses xen systems running with the current dom0 patch set. Because > those patches are out-of-tree, they have a hard time updating kernel > versions, and generally lag kernel.org releases by a lot, which is not > always a good thing. > > So getting the dom0 patches into mainline will make their lives much > easier, and more secure.
I know at least a couple of mid-sized hosting companies migrating all or part of their infrastructure off Linux/Xen to a proprietary solution, because of this very reason (problems with keeping dom0 kernel up to date, problems with deploying it on new machines etc.).
-- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
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