Fedora 16 Final Release Criterion for Xen DomU

[David Nalley]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Adam Miller
<maxamillion at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 02:23:59PM -0400, David Nalley wrote:
> <SNIP>
>> I don't think we can dismiss the ability to have Fedora run on the
>> hyerpvisor that powers (by most accounts) 80% of the public clouds.
>> Amazon, RackSpace, Linode, Tata, IDCF, and virtually every other major
>> compute cloud services provider is using Xen of some sort as their
>> hypervisor. Even if that list was only Amazon AWS, I'd say it's still
>> too large to ignore. Effectively if Fedora doesn't work on Xen it
>> likely means it doesn't work in the cloud which hardly strikes me as a
>> reasonable expectation. I'd personally argue that this should be more
>> than a NTH, but my view tends to be pretty cloud-centric these days.
> <SNIP>
>
> Do any of those cloud providers ever run the stock image or do they roll
> their own with a custom built kernel anyways? I don't have a lot of
> insight into this but was just curious what the landscape is looking
> like out there. I personally think it would be cool to have F16
> boot/install as DomU out of the box, but I don't really have a dog in
> the fight either way... just an idle curiousity.
>

Well at least for Amazon, what is there is what we (Fedora) push up,
so it's all Fedora now, with our own kernel.
I am sure Max Spevack and Justin Forbes can speak to this more
intelligently than I can.
I don't have visibility into a lot of the public clouds. I do get the
impression that RackSpace uses their own kernel or at least has
historically. For some of the others, I know they aren't rolling their
own kernel, they are booting what ships, creating templates of it etc.

--David