<span class="q">On 1/10/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">D. Hageman</b> <<a href="mailto:dhageman@dracken.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dhageman@dracken.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Xen was merged into the mainstream kernel last July(ish).</blockquote></span><div><br>Xen as a guest support is mainline but for i386 only (useless on modern
hardware in a datacenter) with 2.6.23 being the first release of this. The hypervisor stuff is still thoroughly
intrusive and unlikely to go in any time soon.<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If the distro you use comes with Xen and management tools for Xen then
<br>that is probably the best option.</blockquote></span><br>All the distros with Xen hosting support are providing special kernels that have the giant patch sets applied to them.<br><br>