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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Does this make Xen obsolete? I mean... we have xen patches in suse
> kernels, should we keep updating them, or just drop them in favour of
> KVM?
> 							Pavel

Xen is duplicating basic OS components like the scheduler etc. As 
a result its difficult to maintain and not well integrated with Linux. 
KVM looks like a better approach.