On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 05:08:27PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > On May 6, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: > > Is there a VM server that will deply on SPARC hardware and pretend > > to be > > an x86? > > Qemu will do it, but it'll be slower than pissing tar.
I knew Qemu could emulate a SPARC, wasn't sure about the chips it could run on. But, yeah, I'd expect it to be about like pissing tar. > > 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. > > I've done two installations of exactly that, with great results, > indistinguishable from running on bare metal if VMware is properly > configured. (i.e., no overcommitment of CPUs or memory) WTF? This was several months ago so my memory of numeric details is gone, but there's no way our users would have suffered through it. Logins took minutes, screen draws were unusably slow; this while other VMs on the same hardware were nicely fluid for other sorts of workloads. *shrug* Maybe it's worth another go, but we don't have anything new for VM hosting hardware since the last try, and nothing in the network space where this deployment has to go so it'd be moot anyway. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
