[zones-discuss] Future directions of Zones?

2011-06-20 Thread Orvar Korvar
There are speculations that future Microsoft Windows OS, will only be a kernel. And each program will be installed in an individual VM created for that program. Hence, the kernel would be minimalistic and not bloated. Can not something similar be done to Solaris? For instance, small Kernel, and

Re: [zones-discuss] Future directions of Zones?

2011-06-20 Thread Pete Chan
I thought thats the reason we have core or core + networking to begin with. also we have JeOS with open solaris. Both of these aproaches to install solaris are almost bare bones. Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:35 -0700 From: knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com To: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Future directions of Zones?

2011-06-20 Thread James Carlson
Orvar Korvar wrote: There are speculations that future Microsoft Windows OS, will only be a kernel. And each program will be installed in an individual VM created for that program. Hence, the kernel would be minimalistic and not bloated. Can not something similar be done to Solaris? For

Re: [zones-discuss] Future directions of Zones?

2011-06-20 Thread Nico Williams
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: There are speculations that future Microsoft Windows OS, will only be a kernel. And each program will be installed in an individual VM created for that program. Hence, the kernel would be minimalistic and not