Thanks should go to Dirk Grobler (on this list I believe) for his
vision. It's his baby. And of course the Virtual Box team! The VBox
hypervisor fits in better with our strategy for the time being by
offering many different types of guest OSes (not just windows) with good
performance. xVM Server is not yet an official product and we can't
build and meet our (Sun Ray/VDI) roadmap dates against something that's
not available.
Jim Klimov wrote:
Hello Craig,
(New topic since this is not about SRSS in local zone anymore)
Sounds like great news, thank you Mr. Bender :)
Otherwise it looks kinda silly to take a new Sun server
with lots of disk and RAM, and virtualization capable CPUs,
say Thumper X4540 :) or the smaller X4*40 and X4*50 boxes,
and instead of Solaris/ZFS stock them up with VMWare ESX
(and be lucky to have a hardware RAID if available).
(Anything about Xen suppport, though? Or is the purchased
VBox the platform of Sun choice now? How do they compare?)
Friday, November 14, 2008, 10:01:56 PM, you wrote:
CB> Hi Jim,
CB> We are in Early Access of our next VDI offereing. EA1 is a closed
CB> program, EA2 will be open and expect an announcement in the Dec/Jan time
CB> frame. VBox, ZFS, iSCSI, etc. (Also continued support for VMWare).
CB> Stay tuned.
CB> Jim Klimov wrote:
Hello Andreas,
AH> Indeed!! We are waiting for this feature for years now. Our attempts to
AH> misuse VirtualBox (Solaris instances on Solaris host) for this purpose
AH> have not been that successful yet (machine is dying now and then).
As a matter of fact, can anyone on the list share their experiences
about virtualizing individual user desktop systems (be it Windows XP,
Solaris, Linux or whatever works) in the VM engines available in
(Open)Solaris x86/x64, with (and maybe without) CPU hardware support?
I believe the choice is currently between VirtualBox and the Xen fork
in OpenSolaris?
Are there any particular issues using ZFS as VM-image storage?
I.e. making a "golden image" of a desktop system and then cloning
its snapshots, instead of making a full copy at once?
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