Internet News interviewed Simony Crosby, CTO, XenSource for this end year:
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IN: What about the inclusion of Xen in the Linux kernel? Is that something that is very important and when would you expect that to occur?SB: It’s very important and we are working very hard with Red Hat and the OSDL on making that happen. There is a sequence of things that has to happen to make that work. We had to get Xen 3.0 done, which is the case now with APIs that we stick to it that are backwards compatible going forwards. Those patches then need to be upstreamed to kernel.org, and we have weekly calls with the key upstreaming folks. Everybody is really committed to it because everybody wants a common Xen platform.
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