It’s a mistake to include Xen in a Linux distro

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:21:30 +0000

As the title show, it’s a mistake to include Xen in a linux distro. Why?

Somebody would argue that Xen is a very useful technology. Xen does the virtualization work very well and many projects are using Xen which prove Xen is so great.

I’m not mean Xen is not good. However, just because Xen is a hypervisor that is based on another microkernel that is not Linux kernel itself. Linux distros that ship Xen today actually are running an entirely different Operating System kernel that most users even don’t notice that. Xen should be a separate, purpose-built kernel, so it should never be a part of the Linux kernel. Isn’t it strange that you think you are running a linux OS, but this ’linux’ has a kernel that is not linux, which is another kernel. You take away the Linux kernel, how could you say the OS is Linux.

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It’s a mistake to include Xen in a Linux distro