The second milestone towards RHEL 5, which will count virtualization amoung its main features, is introducing the technology preview of Xen for Itanium 2 architectures DesktopLinux.com reports.
Some rumors report Red Hat will offer a certain amount of free RHEL 5 licenses where the OS is running inside Xen VMs, mimicking what Microsoft already does with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.