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Summary: It's time to standardise on KVM, decides the Linux Foundation

For those who are new to this discussion, here is necessary background on Ignition Partners, XenSource, Citrix, and Microsoft. It's reassuring to see that not only Canonical and Red Hat (in that order) realised what was going on. The Linux Foundation too is now urging in favour of a move towards KVM and a Windows site complains about it, which indicates that the Linux Foundation is doing the right thing (what Microsoft hates is typically good for GNU/Linux).

At the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit in San Francisco last week, executive director Jim Zemlin encouraged vendors and developers to standardize their virtualization activities around KVM—not Xen. This whole Xen vs. KVM debate is getting annoying, but first off, this “news” isn’t news: there shouldn’t be any shockwaves from this late-in-coming statement.

KVM has already been acquired by Red Hat, so it cannot be hijacked by Microsoft via one of its allies/de facto subsidiaries. ⬆

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