* Tim McMurphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-07 14:40]: > I would like to start a community group with the focus of running > other operating systems inside a zone. This would look at optimizing > opensource software like bochs and/or qemu for the OpenSolaris > project. > > This is different from the Xen project in that we would use Solaris as > the hypervisor with its rich set of resource control and then emulate > x86 systems inside a zone. > > So far as a proof of concept I have run FreeDOS inside a zone on a > Sparc system using bochs. It was very slow. Evaluating what > optimizations can done and running it on Solaris x86 is my next > planned step. > > While this approach will be slower than Xen it is still interesting to > look into. That and processors are not going to get any slower. At > some point even emulating an entire x86 system in software will become > realistic.
Neat. Would you be interested in a Virtualization community, with your kind of work, Zones, Xen, and some other projects all discussing common issues? - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
