Hi Folks, As you may have seen by the last thread I have been playing with QEMU pretty much for my own personal VPN connectivity.
On the other hand we are starting to look at virtualizing some of our Dev and UAT environments to save on HW costs. One of the other Architects on my Team owns the project and he has been focused on running VMWare using RH Linux for both the Host and Guest Operating Systems. Stanford is a Solaris/Linux/Oracle shop so the virtual environments will need to be Oracle RH Linux that will support an Oracle install. Right now with this project there is the chance to better promote Solaris x86 and QEMU if there were strong underlying technical reasons why running Solarisx86 + QEMU might prove a better solution than RH Linux + VMWare. So all you OpenSolaris/QEMU Gurus out there, any chance you folks could rattle off any Pros (or cons) why OpenSolaris + QEMU might be as good or better than the Linux + VMWare? The "OpenSolaris" BrandZ stuff sounds interesting too! I wonder if BrandZ could run an Oracle stack? Anyway if you folks want to help promote these technologies the more ammunition you can provide the better! I have always been a Solaris fan even back before I worked at Sun and still am trying to leverage it whenever possible! Thanks! Tom
