As i said, there are various reasons. Most of them are only obvious to our kernel developers. Drivers are one issue. The other big issue is stability. The last time we took a look at the patches, they didn't seem to be ready for prime-time.
And domU is all you need ...
Maybe it's all YOU need, but maybe other customers want to run multiple ASGs on our hardware too. This is something we have to consider.
So let me state this clearly: We will support Xen, but it will not be during this Public Beta and maybe not even for the early version ASG Version 8. My guess is that i t will make it into 8.1 and then be fully supported. We're big fans of virtualization too, you know?
Maybe it's all YOU need, but maybe other customers want to run multiple ASGs on our hardware too. This is something we have to consider.
I understand the other reasons for holding off on Xen (I've found it unstable as well so I run astaro on ESXi.) but the logic of the above escapes me.
Why would a user want to install an Astaro domU on top of an Astaro supplied dom0? The whole idea of domU is to seperate the guest(Astaro) from the underlying OS. With VMware and other virtualization products it's understood that the Astaro image is at most a 'guest'. To assume otherwise IMHO means you really need to read up on what virtualization is.
All that said, I'm really looking forward to getting my copy of v8 Beta installed next week on a new ESXi image for testing. [:D]
Hi bubu, I like you want all my 24/7 machines ion the one box, but I could not work out a way of connecting and ADSL PPPoE connection across the VM interfaces.
