On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Nikola M <minik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lukas Laukamp wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> at the moment I am search for alternativ OSes than linux which have >> KVM and Xen support. beside NetBSD and Illumos I also want to look at >> OpenIndiana. >> >> For KVM I found a port at github which semm to work but is in a >> testing/development state. >> >> For Xen I couldn't find that much so for me it's not clear if there is >> Dom0 support in OpenIndiana or whether there are plans to implement >> Dom0 support. >> >> When someone know more about that themes it would be great to get a >> reply with more information. > Hi to All new to Solaris and Illumos based, Openiniana :) > I hope you will find many benefits in using Solaris / Illumos based > systems but you > _really get to know what you will get with it's benefits_ and where it > shines comparing to other platforms. > If you know it, I hope choosing it would be more easy, primary from > Sysadmin perspective > that wants to have a life more easy and safer in a sense of doing your > work like you expect. > List of Illumos distributions: > http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions > > Those benefits include open source engineered Kernel with ZFS on the > upstream, Light virtualization with Zones, network virtualization with > crossbow, KVM integration, DTrace for live server debugging, better > hardware scalability, binary compatibility of applications between > releases, stable driver ABI, boot environments/snapshots,IP2 > mutipathing/Load balancing, role based access control, etc. > > Openindiana is Illumos based distribution, with IPS packaging as > continuation of Opensolaris and is made of mostly same user space > packages as Solaris11, plus OI additional IPS publishers/repositories. > It is available both in text-only install (server) and with Desktop, as > the truly Opensolaris continuation. > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/1.+Introduction > https://hg.openindiana.org/ > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Package+Repositories > > KVM for Illumos is made for SmartOS (Joyent company made it for a cloud) > and is now available in Openindiana. > Officially, KVM for Illumos supports Intel CPU's with EPT instruction set. > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/KVM > > Illumos KVM is used in production in Joyent for large scale > virtualization for real-world customers and is available in Openindiana. > Version for AMD CPUs and Intel without EPT is in development and need > community backing. > > http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Hardware+Requirements#HardwareRequirements-KVMRequirements > https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-kvm/ > > Illumos distributions and Openindiana support running as domU . > Xen (dom0) support was available in Opensolaris 2009.06 till Opensolaris > snv_134 , but > aether Oracle ditched it from source before renamed it to it's closed > source product on Solaris11, > and Illumos does not have it in the code tree, because it was removed > from OS/Net before Oracle forked it to closed source and Illumos > established itself. > That is incorrect. Xen dom0 support is still in illumos, and OI still ships a (semi-) working Xen dom0 implementation.
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