OK, so Xen’s not considered stable. Well, at least according to one Novell exec, Xen virtualization is just not there yet.

Novell’s chief technology officer, Markus Rex, has hit back at criticism that the company included an unstable Xen virtualization environment in its new Linux server, pointing to support from hardware partners.

At Novell’s Sydney, Australia, office on Thursday, Rex responded to claims by Linux competitor Red Hat that Xen was not stable enough to be deployed in enterprise environments. Novell has claimed to be the first vendor to include Xen in its Linux distribution, Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

Xen, primarily developed by United States-based start-up XenSource, enables users to run multiple operating systems as guest virtual machines on the same hardware…. Source: News.com