Xen, KVM management tools in Fedora

Xen, KVM management tools in Fedora

> Support for the KVM virtualization API. KVM appears to be the
> future of Linux virtualization, so distributions will need to
> pick it up. What will happen to Xen support is unclear; Xen is
> unpopular with some of the Fedora folks, but is high on the Red
> Hat list.

With the pace of development in the area of virtualization, it is looking
increasingly like Linux is going to be (blessed?) with many different
virt solutions (some in tree, some out of tree) for the long term.

Since each project has its own approach to management, this could have a
negative impact for system administrators / software developers. To avoid
this problem, in Fedora the goal is for all primary management tools to
use the libvirt API (http://libvirt.org). This library provides a simple
management API which is agnostic to the different virtualization
technologies. In Fedora Core 6, this supported management of Xen virtual
machines. In Fedora 7, the goal is to additionally support QEMU & KVM
virtual machines. This will allow a single set of management tools (eg
Virtual Machine Manager http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com) to be used
with Xen, QEMU & KVM.

So in the short term, Xen & KVM ought to be able to happily co-exist in
Fedora 7, letting people can pick & choose whichever works best for their
needs.