What are Fedora’s strategies for supporting Xen, KVM, QEMU, etc.?
Max: Xen is obviously a big part of what’s in Fedora, but QEMU and KVM are also in there. I think Fedora has a responsibility to offer everything. Just because Red Hat puts a lot of resources and money behind Xen doesn’t mean that Fedora should ignore the other available options. There are people who are going to want them, so we make them all available. Our Fedora infrastructure team uses Xen in pretty much everything. It’s the ultimate in eating our own dog food. We are using Fedora to build Fedora and we were using Xen in production long before Red Hat was saying well we’ll sell you Xen in RHEL. That’s something that’s ready for production. But I like the idea of making everything easy enough to use that you don’t have to be an expert to use it. I think of myself as a good use case for a lot of the Fedora stuff. I have an engineering background but I’m not a super duper programmer. I couldn’t write the stuff myself. But I know what it’s supposed to do and how it’s supposed to work.
