Sun mentioned that one of the benefits of xVM is that it allows technologies in Solaris to be used with Xen. Things like DTrace, ZFS, Predictive Self-Healing are good examples.
I googled and found this page, not sure if you have read it before or not: http://blogs.sun.com/michaelh/entry/xvm_server_dtrace_fma Rayson On 2/15/08, David Meisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a grad student working at University of Michigan in computer > architecture. I'm writing to open up the idea that instrumentation of the xvm > would be extremely useful tool for the research community. Those of us > interested in virtualization are very interested in monitoring the behavior > of these systems and with low engineering effort! I was hoping to get > feedback on the feasibility of such a feature in the future for solaris to > support this. Certainly, the hypervisor would need to allow such > communication which may be a bit of a security/virtualization concern. Being > able to use dtrace on the LDom hypervisor would be awesome, but is it even > possible? Certainly this would mean some effort in the firmware.... > > > -David > > > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > dtrace-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list [email protected]
