[ Thanks to Jim
Lynch for this link. ]
“Novell announced their first service pack release for
SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES), and if you like
virtualization, this is a very strong platform from which you can
get started.“That’s because, for now, Novell is going to be supporting KVM
and Xen (plus Microsoft’s Hyper-V tech) within SLES 11 SP1 — and
that’s not taking into account the recent Novell/VMware partnership
that will have VMware distributing SLES as a commoditized operating
system offering.“Even industry observers might be forgiven for a little whiplash
as they come to the sudden realization that SLES may be the most
virtualization-friendly enterprise distro out there, by virtue of
Novell’s decision to keep supporting Xen (and presumably adding
VMware support later), while Red Hat has opted to drop Xen support
in favor of KVM as it moves toward Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
6.“While Novell certainly wasn’t hiding anything about its
virtualization prowess as it got to this point, it also wasn’t
shouting it from the highest rooftops.”