Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization on solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-28 Thread Florian Ermisch
Am 28.07.10 11:40, schrieb Matthias Pfützner: [...] So, in order to minimize that problem, "thin" hypervisors have been designed, like Xen. Idea is: Less code, less faults. Compare VMware vs. Xen, and you'll understand, what I'm talking about... In VMware, there's way more code (as it is a thick

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization on solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-28 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Florian Manschwetus) wrote: > Am 26.07.2010 05:35, schrieb Edward Martinez: > > I'm not very fond about xen virtualization because, if the hypervisor > > has bugs it might bring the entire stack down( host OS along with the > > guest) where as if virtualization was being done through s

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization on solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-28 Thread Florian Manschwetus
Am 26.07.2010 05:35, schrieb Edward Martinez: >> We've run XEN here on b134 very successfully, and it ... >> >> The "production test" environment is all on XENs now. > > I'm not very fond about xen virtualization because, if the hypervisor has > bugs it might bring the entire stack down( ho

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization on solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-25 Thread Masafumi Ohta
(2010/07/26 11:40), Jorgen Lundman wrote: We've run XEN here on b134 very successfully, and it came with opensolaris (or at least, you can just go 'pkg install $module'. We ran b134 as the dom0, and we tested: osol_119 osol_134 Sol 10u8 centos_5.3 Windows 7 FreeBSD 7.2 Win2k3_srv ubuntu 9.10

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization on solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-25 Thread Edward Martinez
> We've run XEN here on b134 very successfully, and it > came with opensolaris (or at least, you can just go > 'pkg install $module'. > > We ran b134 as the dom0, and we tested: > > osol_119 > osol_134 > Sol 10u8 > centos_5.3 > Windows 7 > FreeBSD 7.2 > Win2k3_srv > ubuntu 9.10 > > as domU. >

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization on solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-25 Thread Jorgen Lundman
We've run XEN here on b134 very successfully, and it came with opensolaris (or at least, you can just go 'pkg install $module'. We ran b134 as the dom0, and we tested: osol_119 osol_134 Sol 10u8 centos_5.3 Windows 7 FreeBSD 7.2 Win2k3_srv ubuntu 9.10 as domU. The "production test" environme

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization on solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-25 Thread HeCSa
Hi, Edward! On 07/25/10 11:22 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Suppose you want to use solaris/opensolaris as a VM host, and Windows Server as a guest. What would be the preferred hypervisor to use? Sun Virtualbox? It is desired to start the guest when the host boots up. And vice-versa for s

[osol-discuss] Virtualization on solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Suppose you want to use solaris/opensolaris as a VM host, and Windows Server as a guest. What would be the preferred hypervisor to use? Sun Virtualbox? It is desired to start the guest when the host boots up. And vice-versa for shutdown. I see that sol10/osol are not supported host OSes for