Bruno,
I run windows as a VirtualBox guest on a Solaris 11 Express server. VirtualBox is pretty flexible about what it can use for virtual disk drives, so you can even configure it to directly use a zvol or just create a new zfs file system to hold the disk images. There aren't Solaris specific examples of that in the VirtualBox documentation, but it's not too hard to figure out. Lastest stuff available at www.virtualbox.org Joe > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:50:58 +0100 (CET) > From: Bruno Damour <ll...@ruomad.net> > To: david comay <david.co...@oracle.com> > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express and xvm > > Yes, hence my surprise to find dom0 x64 support in Solaris 11 Express. I believe the engineering work to remove dom0 was just not completed in time for the release. > Anyway, even w/ issues, that is the only solution for me to upgrade, and that is a good surprise. > > I use a couple of HVM (windows) guests on my home server (ow a windows 2008r2 test AD controller) installed > on zvols and it has been very satisfactory with snv_134 so far. I can't see any other solution who would > let me use full zfs power and still have my windows guests running on the same machine. > ESXi wouldn't allow passthrough to a (open)solaris guest afaik. > > Any comments welcome. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
