Am 03.09.2010 17:09, schrieb Gaiseric Vandal: > I have worked with Solaris 10, various Solaris Express Community Edition > Releases (Nevada, which for a while came out every two weeks) as well as > OpenSolaris (indiana?, which came out every several months.) > > The appeal big appeal of OpenSolaris was that it provided some of the > functionality of Solaris 10 + added new features that will hopefully get into > Solaris 10. XVM support was pretty good- I can run an OpenSolaris machine > with several paravirtualized guests which is really nice on a machine that > doesn't support hardware virtualization. ZFS is a key technology that is > just not available in Linux. And there is some key software for us that was > available for Solaris but not linux. > > But I am now confused about the discussion of forks. If Sun no longer > provides source code to the Open Solaris community, doesn't this mean some > core functionality (e.g. CIFS, kernel updates, ZFS updates) are now frozen? > At this particular point, OpenSolaris's major advantage over Solaris 10 is > XVM support. But since any new server I buy these days (and even desktops > and laptops) comes with hardware virtualization support, XVM presents less > value. Wait, you know xvm is a full capable xen? So xvm allows you to run on one server a complete heterogeneous it infrastructure when hardware virtualization is available, including MS Active-Directory, Exchange, OpenSolaris fileserver, another OpenSolaris for zones and some Linux servers for other tasks. So why reduces the availability of hardware virtualization the value of xvm?
Florian
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