The Xen Project – an open source virtualization platform licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar governance structure to the Linux kernel – is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
Commenting on the support for Xen and how that relates to KVM, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin writes in a blog, “The open source model is predicated upon freedom of choice, so supporting a range of open source virtualization platforms and facilitating collaboration across open source communities is a priority for The Linux Foundation.”
Zemlin adds, “We work closely with the KVM developer community and great ecosystem represented by our friends at the Open Virtualization Alliance. For instance, The Linux Foundation manages the logistics each year for the KVM Forum, and this year we’ll be hosting the KVM Technical End User Summit at the Enterprise End User Summit in New York in May in partnership with IBM. It always has been and will continue to be a priority for us to highlight the KVM community’s content at our events and on Linux.com.”
Read Zemlin’s blog here.