Is there a VM server that will deply on SPARC hardware and pretend to be
an x86?

I've only tried Sun Ray on one VM platform, a Solaris/x86 guest on VMware
ESX; performance was so bad we abandoned the attempt.


On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 08:16:52PM +0000, Carl Holzhauer wrote:
> What about running some sort of VM server on your server and installing Linux 
> on that?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Jinks
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [SunRay-Users] Sun Ray on SPARC Linux?
> 
> I'm pretty sure the answer to this is "ha ha ha ha ha" but I have to ask...
> 
> I have a legacy system running Sun Ray on an UltraSPARC server (Fire V220, 
> FWIW).  Due to time constraints and other issues I don't have the option of 
> replacing that machine, but I need to have a modernized Sun Ray setup 
> deployed in about a week.  Our target setup requires the pam_exec module, 
> which exists in Linux but not in Solaris, which means I'm looking at Sun Ray 
> on RHEL.
> 
> After a quick Google search it looks like there are projects to build Fedora 
> for SPARC, but I'm betting that the Sun Ray binaries aren't available for 
> that processor/OS combo.  Any chance I might get lucky?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Michael
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