Speaking from experience, there are some big deployments of Solaris 9 on x86 out there in the e-commerce and telco industries. But many have moved onto Solaris 10 thankfully. So I can understand the thinking here. But I'm sure there may be some good business cases where S8/9 branded zones on x86 would be desirable.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Jeff Victor <jeff.j.vic...@gmail.com> To: Rainer Orth <r...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Cc: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, October 2, 2009 8:54:27 PM Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones on Nevada and/or x86 On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Rainer Orth <r...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > As far as I've been able to find out so far, Solaris 8 and 9 branded > zones are available and supported on Solaris 10 only right now, and only > for SPARC. Are there any plans to provide them for x86 and Nevada, too? There wasn't much Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 deployed on x86, so, to the best of my knowledge, there will not be a Solaris 8 Containers or Solaris 9 Containers for x86. As for Nevada - do you also mean x86? > There are two reasons I'm asking: I'd like to test current versions of > GCC on older Solaris releases without having to run on bare metal. Of > course I could use VirtualBox or xVM on x86, but the performance won't > be too good (I tested a GCC bootstrap on xVM dom0 quite some time ago > and it took about twice as long as on bare metal). And on SPARC, I > don't have a spare Ldom available to run Solaris 10, but would rather > use a zone on a V880 running Nevada. > > Especially given the fact that Sun wants to get Solaris 10 users on bare > metal to Nevada (Solaris 11, whatever) quickly by providing Solaris 10 > branded zones, it would only make sense to provide S8/S9 branded zones > on S11 as well. I follow your logic. It is very important to distinguish between the bi-weekly builds of OpenSolaris, the supported releases of the OpenSolaris distro, and the-next-version-of-Solaris-after-10. They are different entities, and the abilities to run S8C or S9C on each of those are very different things. S8C and S9C are (non-open-source) products that Sun (as opposed to other distributors of OpenSolaris distros) makes available. I don't think that this is an appropriate place for discussion of Sun's product futures. But I have been wrong about such things before... --JeffV _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
