> > Well, I don't care much about GUI management systems, I care about scripts. > > I know, like I do, but sadly... VMware is sold, because it has a marvelous > GUI, not because of its technical superiority.. ;-)
Sad but true. > For small and midsize, you can use VBox, less resource-overhead! Did you ever > try to run at least ONE DomU with a Dom0 on 2GB RAM? Doesn't work! In VBox, I > can have at least 3 guests, all in paralell on the same RAM... ;-) Depends, on > how you define small and medium... ;-) And, still, OVM is free... ;-) I still prefer Xen over VirtualBox for servers. VirtualBox is great on my MacBookPro. :-) > > Now that there are rumours that Bryan Cantrill has > > left Oracle, the future development of dtrace is not clear, anyway. > > Read his blog, he left! BUT: He named his NEW Blog dtrace.org... ;-) Noone out > here currently knows, what he's up to...;-) Time will tell. > Hmmm... what keeps Oracle from providing images for Xen? > > Nothing, they are there, and are called "templates"... ;-) You can download > "templates" (aka, ready to run images of OS+Apps) for OVM, so, all's preset, > and Bob's your uncle... ;-) Indeed. The question was more or less rethoric. > > What about Sun xVM Ops Center or whatever it was called? > > xVM Server for x86.. Never been a product... Even during Sun days, management > decided, it's easier to have the management OUTSIDE the product... So, noew > you can use OVM Manager, or possibly somewhen in the future, Oracle Enterprise > Manager Ops Center... As that already does manage Zones/Containers and > lDoms... Yes, that's what I meant, not xVM Server. Your point was about GUI. > There were 3 Xen-based solutions inside Oracle. OVM, OpenSolaris based xVM > hypervisor, and the third, I always forget the name of... That third had been > bought for the Management-GUI, AFAIK... Let's make ONE implementation good, > and not three... Waste of engineering resources, I guess... ;-) That's fine if it provides all the technical features we have come to expect. > I didn't decide, I don't know, who decided, and why and on what grounds. I > only saw the result of the decision... And try to reason something into it, > so, standard disclaimer: This is all my interpretation... ;-) Of course! Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: v...@bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
