Red Hat adopts KVM

Its a great news for KVM fans that RedHat has adopted it as its default hypervisor in its RHEL. Its very difficult to say that KVM’s credibilities were the only reasons that influenced this decision. Looking deep inside, there are many factors..

• RedHat has been a major contributor to XEN from early days. But in around 2007 a series of dramatic events happened. Novell partnered with Microsoft, Citrix acquired XenSource etc. So, in less than one year Red Hat lost much of its capability to influence the Xen development.

• KVM offers a lot of advantages to Red Hat. For example it ships as an official kernel module, avoiding major investments in maintaining it. For example Novell is not using it and it’s unlikely to do so for a while (it has too much to do with Microsoft and Citrix right now). For example it brings a new powerful allied, IBM, which clearly has no more interests in heavily investing in Xen. For example its inclusion in the kernel makes very hard for Microsoft, its allied, or any other uncomfortable player to influence its development.

Whatever it is, I rejoice. Its good news to me.

Courtesy: virtualization.info