I would like to start a community group with the focus of running other operating systems inside a zone. This would look at optimizing opensource software like bochs and/or qemu for the OpenSolaris project.
This is different from the Xen project in that we would use Solaris as the hypervisor with its rich set of resource control and then emulate x86 systems inside a zone. So far as a proof of concept I have run FreeDOS inside a zone on a Sparc system using bochs. It was very slow. Evaluating what optimizations can done and running it on Solaris x86 is my next planned step. While this approach will be slower than Xen it is still interesting to look into. That and processors are not going to get any slower. At some point even emulating an entire x86 system in software will become realistic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
