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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