On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:21:28AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > - VMWare. It would be really, really cool if I could run VMWare > player on Solaris, or even better, the VMWare Server product. Then I > could create virtual instances of Solaris, and also host NetBSD (or, > gasp, even Linux!) inside VMWare. As I do kernel development of NetBSD, > this would be really, really useful to me. > > There are probably other things that people want, but the VMWare product > would immediately make most things available, and requires less overhead > than other solutions. (I know, I could probably set up a Solaris Zone, > run Linux in it, and host the VMWare player in it. Has anyone tried > that? I still haven't tried Solaris Zones, but I'm also running Solaris > 10 3/05. I suppose I should upgrade...) >
vmware won't work in lx branded zones becaouse it requires a special driver that is not available on solaris. (Linux emulation in branded zones is done at the system call level so we can't run linux drivers.) ed
