Looking at the fact, that OVM is free, and has a way better graphical
management system, and also comes with already predefined "Images", I don't
see that many problems.
Who would really be using ZFS in the Dom0, if you build bigger environments?
You would place the binaries/images on some network device, so no disadvantage
here. Dtrace in Dom0 would be useful for the device-drivers only. The Dtrace
interface to Xen was based on an asynchronous message bus, with no guarantee
of getting all messages, not even in time. Crossbow might be the only
advantage, that's not deployable in an OVM-like environment. But given the
advantages of predefined image-sets for OVM and the already available
graphical interface for managing OVM, I really like the engineers working on
making Solaris a better DomU, than working on porting Xen 4.0 to Solaris. You
also no longer buy your PC based on whether it runs an AMI BIOS or an AWARD
BIOS. That's something, that's simply there... ;-)
Again: This is all my private thinking!
Matthias
You (Justin Lee Ewing) wrote:
> Wow, that is really disappointing... especially with all the features of ZFS,
> the intergration of Crossbow, etc. One would think you would deprecate
> OracleVM in favor of the combined Solaris/Xvm and try to consolidate. I was
> definiately looking forward to getting rid of VMware... but no point in that
> if I'm not moving towards a single OS/command set.
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