The only virtualization option I can think of on a v480 is zones, and as an obvious result you are limited to Solaris OS. You can run Solaris 8/9/10 branded zones, but as most sparc linux is best effort (at best), I doubt you will find a "linux" branded zone for SPARC architecture.
Your best bet is to get an x86 architecture machine if you want to virtualize x86 OS's. You can use the v480 (or a pair of them for HA) as NAS servers to store the backend disk images (iscsi or vdisk/NFS) for a group of x86 servers. Tommy On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Stoyan Petkov wrote: > The machine finally arrived but it appears that the Ultrasparc III+ Cu > processor will only support solaris zones. LDoms want T-processors to run. > Unfortunately, with zone I cannot run a native copy of linux nor any other > operating system, just linux apps. VirtualBox, Xen and VMWare are out of the > game as well. > My only option according to my research is OpenBSD with QEMU. I am not sure > if that will work though. > > Is there anything else I can try? > > Thanks once again! > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
