>Missing dom0 (xVM/XEN) support in OpenIndiana is one thing, but worse is that it can't > be run as PV guest in XEN(xVM) = PV domU (as others said - I haven't tried that myself - so I can't confirm that. BTW is this TRUE?, does OpenIndiana contain xVM/XEN compatible PV Kernel?)
Would except Oracle to keep Xen DomU ( not Dom0) support in solaris 11, unless all xVM core team left. --- On Fri, 9/24/10, Dominik Sadowski <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dominik Sadowski <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XEN and Crossbow To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 24, 2010, 4:50 AM I recenty asked same question at Openindiana Wiki / Openindiana Releases / ... / OpenIndiana oi_147 - What's New http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+oi_147+-+What%27s+New and also at Illumos Project forum: http://illumos.org/boards/1/topics/476 Looks like Oracle will drop xVM from theirs next Solaris release (probably because Oracle bet on own hypervisor - Oracle VM, if I recall it is linux based XEN - too bad). And if things goes that way it will be not politically correct (from binary compatibility point of view) to include xVM in OpenIndiana. It's a shame because as I and also many others discovered that "Crosbow + xVM (XEN) + ZFS (better external ZFS based storage for VMs) is a killer feature combo". >From what I gather from IRC/mailing lists/blogs it's not an easy taks to >maintain xVM dom0 code in kernel (and also throughly test that), not >mentioning updating that to XEN 4.0 compatible. There were also some proposals for creating xVM revital project at Illumos site (specially targeted towards linux XEN devs - after KVM is gaining more attraction on Linux), but it's looks like they didn't get any interest. Missing dom0 (xVM/XEN) support in OpenIndiana is one thing, but worse is that it can't be run as PV guest in XEN(xVM) = PV domU (as others said - I haven't tried that myself - so I can't confirm that. BTW is this TRUE?, does OpenIndiana contain xVM/XEN compatible PV Kernel?) On 2010-09-24 08:34, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > 2010/9/24<[email protected]>: >> I have heard they is currently no XEN (xVM Server) and Crossbow inside. > > Crossbow is definitely included, I don't know about Xen since I don't > use it. (Who needs Xen when you got zones? :) People need Xen in order to run various Linux distros and Windowzes (best if they can be PV / pv enabled with i/o + net drivers) on same hardware next to Solaris based hosts. For zones - I'm going to try and use them. I'm rather completely convinced that I'll deploy production servers inside zones (java app servers + db servers and so on), but I'm also planning to put that in separate PV domU system on xVM hypervisor - so I coud easilly move such complete zones enabled (running) VM machine to another physical server (using xVM "live migration" for eg.). > > -- > Venlig hilsen / Kind regards > Jeppe Toustrup > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
