[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualisation in OI 151

[Gary Gendel]

John,

There are a few ways to run jailed VMs in OpenIndiana.  I would look to 
see if zones meets your needs as it is a very lightweight way to have 
jailed Virtual Machines.  As long as you don't care that you're running 
OpenIndiana machines, this is very easy to set up and use.  There are 
some "branded" zones that will allow you to run different versions of 
Solaris and Linux, but I never found them to be supported well.

I would start from here:

http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.+Virtualization

But if you do some googling, you can find a lot of howto information on 
zones.

Gary

On 7/19/12 9:58 AM, John McQuay wrote:
> Hi Folks
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> I'm very much a newbie to OpenIndiana and would like to ask about
> Virtualisation.
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> My server is at the moment running only as a file server but the plan is to
> virtualise a web server and an FTP server separately in their own zones.
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> Is this feasible, and is there any point?  My theory (which may be quashed
> shortly) is that by virtualising the servers which would be accessible from
> the outside world I would have huge gains in security.  I don't have the
> space for multiple servers and want to remain slightly green by using only
> one if I can get away with it.
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> In this situation, what would your recommendations be?  Does anyone have
> experience with configuring zones and could you throw me a couple of
> pointers?
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> Many thanks and all the best, John.
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