Quoting from LinuxInsider.com:

Tools for VM Management Still Primitive

Novell is in the process of porting SLES 9 and NetWare 6.5 to Xen. The company says that SLES 9 will be Xen-enabled by year's end and that NetWare will follow suit by mid-2007, arriving in OES 2. NetWare was shown running as a paravirtualized Xen guest in the BrainShare exhibit hall.

Promising to allow customers to migrate to Linux at their own pace, Novell committed to supporting NetWare, as a Xen guest, "for as long as customers want it," to quote CEO Jack Messman. Novell specifically promised two more releases.

The Xen hypervisor offers features such as full SMP support, dynamic management of memory resources among guests, software control over guest I/O, and the ability to ensure service levels by guaranteeing guests certain fractions of physical CPUs. It can also migrate live workloads from one physical server to another. However, even by Novell's own admission, Xen's tools for managing VMs are primitive.

Novell is hard at work in an attempt to address this shortcoming. It plans to deliver an integrated suite of policy-driven VM management tools on top of Zenworks in the next six to 12 months. The race to adaptive management of the virtualized, x86-based datacenter is on.

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