CRN: I'd hope [Xen support is being uploaded to the kernel]. I think Red Hat is very committed to the Xen project. I think they're waiting to do more testing certification. Red Hat has a large market of data center customers that expect this stuff to be well integrated. Look, it's only four months [between the release of Novell SLES 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or RHEL 5]. It's not like we're talking a long time.
CRN: Red Hat said it might push the release of RHEL 5 until early 2007.
Levine: That's what operating system vendors do. It really depends on their own target market. What does it mean [for Xen] to be integrated into the operating system? I'm not going to say there are no issues with Xen but most of the stuff [at issue] is related to the integration of Xen into the operating environment.
CRN: But Xen is safe and ready to deploy?
Levine: Yes, but depending on the environment, it's safe.
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