[Linux-cluster] Open Source VM Solutions?

[gordan at bobich.net]

>>> "Citrix also reiterated its commitment to maintaining and growing
>>> support for the independent Xen open source community which develops the
>>> underlying virtualization engine used by many commercial products
>>> throughout the industry, including those from XenSource."
>>
>> So anyone using it or thinking about it would still consider it viable as an
>> open source project then?
>
> The problem is that nobody can look in the future.  Policies may change,
> companies may be bought or go bankrupt, spin-offs may be created, etc.
> The past has proven that's it's difficult to predict the future ;-).
>
> I know some Xen users were already pretty unhappy with the "it's fixed
> in the commercial version" answer that XenSource people tended to give
> in response to some bug reports.  And they was before they were bought
> by Citrix.

Sure, but too much of that and they'll end up with a competing fully OSS 
fork. Having said that, if the source is GPL-ed, I'm not sure they are 
legally allowed to not publish the commercial patches.

Gordan