Toby Thain wrote: > On 8-Nov-09, at 12:20 PM, Joe Auty wrote: > >> Tim Cook wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:03 AM, besson3c <j...@netmusician.org >>> <mailto:j...@netmusician.org>> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> >>> Why not just convert the VM's to run in virtualbox and run Solaris >>> directly on the hardware? >>> >> >> That's another possibility, but it depends on how Virtualbox stacks >> up against VMWare Server. At this point a lot of planning would be >> necessary to switch to something else, although this is possibility. >> >> How would Virtualbox stack up against VMWare Server? Last I checked >> it doesn't have a remote console of any sort, which would be a deal >> breaker. Can I disable allocating virtual memory to Virtualbox VMs? >> Can I get my VMs to auto boot in a specific order at runlevel 3? Can >> I control my VMs via the command line? > > Yes you certainly can. Works well, even for GUI based guests, as there > is vm-level VRDP (VNC/Remote Desktop) access as well as whatever > remote access the guest provides. > > > >> I thought Virtualbox was GUI only, designed for Desktop use primarily? > > Not at all. Read up on VBoxHeadless. >
I take it that Virtualbox, being Qemu/KVM based will support 64 bit versions of FreeBSD guests, unlike Xen based solutions? > --Toby > >> This switch will only make sense if all of this points to a net positive. >> >> >> >>> --Tim >> >> >> -- >> Joe Auty >> NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians >> http://www.netmusician.org >> j...@netmusician.org >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org <mailto:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org j...@netmusician.org
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