Hello everyone, I've set up a new 151a system, and have been busy configuring as many services as I can in OI local zones. But for testing reasons I'd still like to have vanilla Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 VMs to play with as well. The virtualization page mentions a few options ( http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.+Virtualization)
- Put 10 and 11 in VirtualBox and be done with it. This sounds easy, but heavy? (I will want to run several at once) - Try to install each in qemu-kvm: I'm not sure if either will run properly (the KVM web page shows spotty support for Solaris VMs?) but may be lighter/faster - Branded zones sound possible, at least for Solaris 10... which seem light and efficient... but I have to create a flar first (?, maybe from within an install in VirtualBox to get things off the ground) and doesn't help with a Solaris 11 VM. The load in each of the Sol10/11 VMs will be light: it more important that I can run 3-5 of each of them than them being fast for any particular app. RAM and disk should not be a problem. Even if KVM and branded-zones are more complicated to get running... are they a better way to go instead of VirtualBox? Would they all be about equal in terms of network speeds in/out of the VMs? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
