That is actually a potential goal of mine. I have been considering opening a hosting company. However, until this discovery I thought I would need to settle on another host OS.
-----Original Message----- From: "Scarlett" <scarlett@entering.space> Sent: 4/7/2015 1:31 PM To: "Jeremiah Ford" <m...@jeremiahford.com> Cc: "sparc@openbsd.org" <sparc@openbsd.org> Subject: Re: ldom question On 07/04/2015 15:12, Jeremiah Ford wrote: > My last question, a perhaps less constructive one, why isn't this more widely > used? There are so many people running OpenBSD on Linux KVM, I would think > that this is the solution they have been looking for. > > Thanks again, already read the manual for ldomctl, plan on finishing reading > Sun's docs next. > > -jf Lack of mindshare is the primary reason. "OpenBSD has no support for (amd64) virtualization" is the common wisdom. Even if most applications people are running on their servers are working well on sparc, it's not "cool", and might as well not exist. For most cheap VPS providers Linux is considered the primary target, with the exception of a few like RootBSD, where FreeBSD is the focus. It'd be nice if there was someone providing OpenBSD-backed SPARC64, though.
