Thanks Bayard. It would think vbox running on an illumos host would work pretty well since I assume Oracle runs their VDI solution on Solaris. Do we think there is going to be a lot of difference between Solaris and Illumos?
So what you are leaning towards is running Illumos as a guest is that right? BTW if anyone needs help testing/QA vbox on something let me know. I am not a kernel developer, but I can run tests and file bug reports. have a great weekend! Geoff On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Bayard Bell <buffer.g.overf...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are three problems running on VBox I've seen previously: 1) building > illumos-gate from source takes days instead of hours; 2) the debug kernel is > extremely unstable, frequently locking up and unable to recover; and 3) > scalability for vCPU and memory is flat on the reference host platform > (Ubuntu) and actually degrades materially going from 2 vCPUs and 4 GB memory > to 4 vCPUs and 8 GB memory with an OS X host. > > I worked directly with the VBox developers on benchmarks a year ago to > document some of these issues. There are definite gaps in what was tested, as > well as assumptions that I was told were reasonable that I'd want to evaluate > more critically this time out. The VBox devs are very reasonable, at least > once you establish that you come bringing quality bug reports and strong > supporting data, and they seems pretty dedicated to understanding and > resolving problems with their product. > > I'm pretty heavily committed at this point, so this isn't a problem I can > chase. I have, however, elsewhere recently offered to help other illumos > developers who want to see this resolved. > > Cheers, > Bayard > > On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:34 AM, Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote: > >> I have been using vbox 4.1.x on OI 151 for about 5 months now running >> some server-based VMs with good success. >> >> I noticed some comments from Bayard on the list about how vbox was >> completely unusable for development. >> >> Are there other people having success using it on servers or have I >> just been lucky? >> >> thanks, >> >> Geoff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
