No doubt a lot more people have x86 boxes at home, but x86 != universe. So if you're thinking about such a thing, I hope you're thinking SPARC as well. (I'm _not_ saying you should have to spend out-of-pocket money to buy hardware to provide a free service to others.)
Absent xen or vmware for SPARC (host and guest), I suppose one would have T1 or T2 based boxes running LDOMs, with a flash archive to initialize domains, and maybe a way to create and write to media (DVD, probably) a flash archive of the modified domain (esp. if it were being used for distro development). I'm wondering what xen or vmware can actually do that LDOMs can't. I guess that might be having the entire OS filesystem(s) on a single disk image file, and having the ability to do live migrations of a running guest. Seems to me that an enhanced (and actually useful) suspend/resume would not only be good on desktops, but if applied to sun4v, might be one of the big parts needed to get live migration of LDOMs to be possible. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
