It's been stated already: xVM is dead in Solaris (no dom0 in Solaris!), the
"replacement" is OVM... Which is FREE and has a way better GUI!
Matthias
You (Boris Derzhavets) wrote:
> > Personally, I think it's a mistake for Oracle to use Linux instead of
> > Solaris as
> > the OS in their VM Server for x86 product. There are clear advantages to
> > using
> > Solaris + ZFS + COMSTAR + Crossbow + everything else! It would really help
> > Oracle to differentiate itself from Citrix, Red Hat, and Novell in the Xen
> > space.
>
> How much you believe that cancel xVM as FOSS is cancel xVM for enterprise ?
>
> Boris.
>
> --- On Thu, 10/14/10, Octave Orgeron <unixcons...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Octave Orgeron <unixcons...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [xen-discuss] XEN on OpenIndiana
> To: "Luke S Crawford" <l...@prgmr.com>, "Bruno Damour" <ll...@ruomad.net>
> Cc: "opensolaris-discuss" <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org>,
> xen-disc...@opensolaris.org
> Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 11:29 AM
>
> Personally, I think it's a mistake for Oracle to use Linux instead of Solaris
> as
> the OS in their VM Server for x86 product. There are clear advantages to
> using
> Solaris + ZFS + COMSTAR + Crossbow + everything else! It would really help
> Oracle to differentiate itself from Citrix, Red Hat, and Novell in the Xen
> space.
>
>
> However, I do wonder if it's possible to elevate VirtualBox to a type 1
> hypervisor ontop of Solaris. That might be even more interesting.
>
> Otherwise, I'm still happy that LDoms, now Oracle VM Server for SPARC, is
> still
> around and an integral part of all future SPARC products.Definitely a better
> architecture than Xen if you ask me.
>
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> Octave J. Orgeron
> Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
> Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com
> E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com
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>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Luke S Crawford <l...@prgmr.com>
> To: Bruno Damour <ll...@ruomad.net>
> Cc: opensolaris-discuss <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org>;
> xen-disc...@opensolaris.org
> Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 5:52:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [xen-discuss] XEN on OpenIndiana
>
>
> Bruno Damour <ll...@ruomad.net> writes:
>
> > +1
> > Osol + XVM + zfs vols + snapshots was/is VERY COOL.
>
>
> oh yes. I lack the skill to make it happen, but if someone with the
> skill is passing the hat I'd donate some money to the cause. Local
> disk, for most things, really is better than network disk, and
> linux/NetBSD lack a suitable scheme for managing partitions and
> snapshots. Right now I'm using Linux/LVM and the snapshot capabilities
> may as well be non-existant due to the performance penalties. also,
> the ability to use a SSD zil would go a long ways to making my sata
> disks perform acceptably.
>
>
>
> --
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