Robert wrote: > In VDI the ZFS volumes are stored in a ZFS pool and accessed by xVM > VirtualBox via iSCSI. > e.g. importing a Desktop takes 24 Min. with Opensolaris as Storage Server and > only 3 Min. with Solaris 10. > ++ when you update Opensolaris VDI is not working any more.... > ++ less stability ....(the hole VDI is sometimes hanging with Opensolaris but > never with Solaris 10 ) > > -Does the xVM Instances run on the same machine? -Are you using the COMSTAR iSCSI Target?
What comes to my mind first could be that may you hit the Nagle algorithm problem... > If there is an overlapping package IPS will see this and refuse the > Installation. > You can Test my Repository in the Virtual Box . > > I was more thinking about getting different packages for the same software. (Like SUNWgrep, BLABLAgrep, XYZgrep). > > yes quality means the Developer are waiting years till the IPS Package is > promoted > from Pending to contrib/ and some more years to dev/ ... > to slow for some Projects! > Don't know about the process, but maybe the community could/should help speed up testing? While not the perfect example, Debian is always mentioned, when talking about the number of packages. I must admit, I have not enough experience about the quality of packages there... But maybe the OpenSolaris project could learn something from them... Cheers Mika
