[OpenIndiana-discuss] Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

[Robin Axelsson]

On 2012-03-17 21:06, Nikola M wrote:
> Bayard Bell wrote:
>> VirtualBox has proven to be effectively unusable
>> (building from source takes days instead of hours, and debug kernels
>> suffer awful performance and lockups)
> Why Vmware?
> Vmware is not available for Openindiana/Illumos.
> And Virtualbox is there for Solaris and until now, Illumos/Openindiana.
>
> I did not manage to have working KVM and Virtualbox on Openindiana at
> the same time,
> but that is something Virtualbox is making issue of, as I know.
>
> Maybe reason for mentioning VmWare is because you think students have MS
> Windows or OSX on their laptops and just lucky ones have Linux?
>
> Maybe one nice dual-boot setup (Installing system on same disk as
> current one but on separate partition) with setting up ZFS and
> Openindiana on it with numerous separate boot environments (BE's) for
> testing Illumos kernels are in place for development?
>
> And one can run Windows apps one maybe badly needs inside
> Virtualbox/KVM, and Openindiana on bare metal, to turn things around a bit?
> (With Nvidia graphics for Illumos/Solaris 3D drivers, of course).
>
> N.
>
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And why such an apparent disinterest for Xen? A good hypervisor with 
full support for PCI and VGA passthrough functionality would definitely 
benefit Illumos/OpenIndiana. Xen used to be available for OpenSolaris in 
the form of xVM.