[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

[Gregory Youngblood]

On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:54 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:

> Hello,
> a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox 3.x, then
> I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth Windows Server guests.
> With a lot of sadness I had to rely on VMWare for production systems, with the drawback that
> standalone VMWare hosts (the ones without a ZFS storage) cannot benefit of the ZFS filesystem on the host to make snapshots and so on.
> How does VB4.x behaves on OI? Anybody uses it?
> Maybe the new combination makes it a production ready approach?

It's not a "production" environment, but I've been running a windows VM on vbox 4 and oi 147 (or was it 148?) to host a tivo desktop app and it ran flawless for several months until I recently shut it down. It was running on a laptop, and they aren't exactly made for extended 24x7 operation. :)