On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Robert Milkowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19/06/2010 01:26, Mike Gerdts wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Denny<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I want to move from a Linux (Debian Lenny) based RootServer (Hetzner) to
>>> OSOL. At the moment my Box runs under Xen and Debian Lenny with four virtual
>>> hosts. Now I don't know what is better. Web, Mail and Jabber are own virtual
>>> hosts. All runs with standard applications, like Postfix, Apache2, ejabberd
>>> so, what es the better way. Should I stay on Xen, or get i better
>>> performance with zones (brandz, for Linux if I need) ?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> Brandz to run Linux would be a bad idea because it was recently "end
>> of featured" and removed from the source.
>>
>> http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg/rev/4c5722bc28dc
>>
>> Supposedly there is going to be a new release of OpenSolaris in the
>> first half of 2010.  Oracle ends their "quiet period" before
>> announcing financial results on June 24.  Given the quiet period and
>> the "first half" commitment, that means that in 7 - 12 days there is a
>> high likelihood that there will be a new OpenSolaris release.  It
>> would probably be smart to see what that release contains before
>> making a decision on Xen vs. VirtualBox.
>>
>>
>
> I think brandz/Linux support will still be there as it was removed past
> snv_134.
> Nevertheless I wouldn't deploy brandz/linux as it is a dead end.

That was my point.  Also, as others have said, where you can get
things to work natively under OpenSolaris, zones are going to be the
most efficient.

-- 
Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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