Some background - I have a couple of NetBSD (i386) boxes and CentOS 5 boxes that I want to virtualise and I'm trying to work out which OS will be most suitable as the dom0. I have a desire to run at least RAID1 and ideally ZFS mirroring on the dom0 so I can have all the domU's not have to worry about disk redundancy etc. My hardware : I have a brand new Intel E8200 core2duo and an Intel G33 chipset motherboard that the BIOS claims supports virtualisation, and 6GB of RAM and a pair of 500GB SATA HDDs - so I should be able to use HVM to run some domU's without needing them to be xen-aware. I want to, in particular, get a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 box running somehow in a virtual machine if possible with xen, if all else fails then with VMware.
I'm evaluating whether to use NetBSD 4.0 amd64, some stable(!) version of linux (CentOS 5?) or OpenSolaris bxx as the dom0. I'd really like to use OpenSolaris with ZFS boot/root if it's possible to do this in a dom0 arrangement as it's my much preferred filesystem, but am not sure how stable the OpenSolaris stuff is at this time? Can anyone here let me know if I'm dreaming or if this is achievable and not overly difficult to get working with current builds of OpenSolaris? Any good war stories? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
