2012-08-31 3:53, [email protected] wrote:
In the modern era of virtualization, why wouldn't you do this with a hypervisor? I run illumos on my mac -- in a vm. (You can even do this for free with VirtualBox, although in my experience VMware offers a better experience. VB may have fixed the pathological problem that made me steer clear of it in the past -- I haven't looked into it recently.)
Well, thinking of a developer workstation, with multiple VMs for testing and developing stuff, a hypervisor based on illumos was what I'd have in mind first-hand: with ZFS cloning/snapshotting and rollbacking of VMs it allows for quite "cheap" experiments in terms of disk space, etc., while keeping even a single-spindle laptop's data safer with ZFS. I am not sure about KVM, but with Virtualbox's desktop integration one might make his individual virtual windows from guest OSes seem like they are apps of the host. Presumably, that (or lx-branded zones) can take care of Skype while we're busy eating our dogfood ;) Being not a voracious graphics user with intricate appetites, I'd not bother much about how nice this illumos-based OS's desktop looks or how last-version its firefox is. If it can draw some windows quickly, that's good enough. A full-blown graphical OS with a primary focus of being a lap/desktop?.. Well, that's what I'm trying since yesterday. OOB HW support is kinda lacking, and that may be a problem on both server and desktop markets for illumos in general :( //Jim _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
