On 9/2/2010 11:59 AM, Gary wrote:
It sounds like now might be a good time for anyone running lx branded
zones to consider migrating them to Xen, xvm, VMware, VirtualBox or
whatever hypervisor or virtualization product you're most comfortable
with unless anyone has any idea whether these will still be supported
in Solaris 11. Most products have some kind of physical to virtual or
virtual to virtual conversion tool you can use to make copies your
current zones.
-Gary
Honestly, I think Gary hit the nail on the head. The LX-branded zones
are yet *another* "virtualization" type available, and we've really now
waaaaay too many. I can't see that it adds really much (if any) value
above that available via VirtualBox, and, as Garret said, it's
significantly non-trival to maintain.
If someone wants to own the code, then by all means, go for it. But I
really do think that someone's effort would be better spent on one of
the other, more mature (and widely-used/adopted) technologies. And,
keeping it out of the main IllumOS sections is almost certainly the best
idea, regardless of whether it gets picked up to be maintained.
While I really like VirtualBox, I'd vote for continued work on the Xen
stuff before updating LX. It's far more useful.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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