Well I don't think Xen is a good enough hypervisor anyways. I would rather see Oracle come up with something better. There are too many Xen implementations and not enough features to differentiate them other than GUI's. Even Red Hat has realized this and are pushing their KVM agenda. And sadly when people talk about virtualization on x86, it's always a VMware discussion with Citrix Xen and MS Hyper-V looked at as oddball alternatives. Red Hat, Oracle, Novell, etc aren't even in the discussion.
The advantage that Oracle has with OVM on x86 and SPARC is that they have a whole application stack, management tools, and even appliances (Exadata, Exalogic) built around them. So I think it'll become a more compelling solution in the long run, especially when Oracle gets the OVM for SPARC under its management tools. VMware isn't a complete solution and people spend millions on all the stuff that goes around it before they even get to look at their application and automation requirements. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Matthias Pfützner <matth...@pfuetzner.de> To: Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Cc: bderzhav...@yahoo.com; l...@prgmr.com; xen-disc...@opensolaris.org; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 11:53:25 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [xen-discuss] XEN on OpenIndiana Du (Joerg Schilling) schreibst: > Matthias Pfützner <matth...@pfuetzner.de> wrote: > > > 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! > > Isn't this a Linux based product? Yes, it is... So, where's the problem? (I know, where the problem is, but...) PSARC/2010/250 EOF of Solaris xVM dom0 from End of June 2010 We've been through this a couple times: If you want "live-migration" you need NO LOCAL disks, therefore the ZFS advantages are in the net-based storage box DTrace doesn't add any advantage, as the xVM dtrace integration is ASYNCHRONOUS, and doesn't guarantee the arrival of all messages from the Xen-part Which leaves COMSTAR, yes, that's sad. But: OVM does already provide tons of templates (preconfigured images with whole app stacks), and, as mentioned, a way better GUI... So, from a business point of view, for DCs, that's the right decision... Which also implies, that inside Sun/Oracle no one any longer takes care of the updating of the Xen dom0 port/part. Matthias > Jörg > > -- > EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: >http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > -- Matthias Pfützner | Tel.: +49 700 PFUETZNER | Things have changed in Lichtenbergstr.73 | mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de | the past two decades. D-64289 Darmstadt | AIM: pfuetz, ICQ: 300967487 | Germany | http://www.pfuetzner.de/matthias/ | Bill Gates, 1995 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
