Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-09 Thread Kent Watsen
Do you mean KVM under OI? I ask for clarification because I'm pretty sure KVM under Linux supports both. Correct, KVM on illumos only supports Intel VT-x (no AMD-v) Linux KVM runs on both VT-x and AMD-v - they've had more time to develop the code. __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-09 Thread Kent Watsen
VBox will run on AMD, whereas KVM won't (unfortunately) K. On 12/5/2011 4:39 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: What advantages for KVM over things like Vbox? I know how to use Vbox but would have to learn a whole new thing to use KVM. Admittedly a bit dense about what KVM is and how it works compar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

2011-06-24 Thread Kent Watsen
"Open Indiana" is a goofy name, even considering its history, but the acronym is OK. Similar to how Kentucky Fried Chicken is now KFC, can we consider emphasizing "oi"? Graphics for "oi" would be easy to make look sharp for a nice "out of the box" experience On 6/21/11 5:00 AM, peter jo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI meeting April 4th 2011 write up

2011-04-06 Thread Kent Watsen
This is a great capturing of the minutes. Maybe next time have a hyperlink to the IRC logs? I was about to ask what's in 151a and when it's to be available, but just noticed Ken posted this release page: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a. This looks like it could be the release I've b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

2010-10-06 Thread Kent Watsen
I think OpenIndiana is a mouthful and trerribly unsexy How about something like "Super Nova" (Sun blows up) Or maybe "Black Hole" (Sun collapses) Just kidding! Totally Agree with Brandon, but maybe we could point someone with Marketing credentials to take this kind of decisions (not me o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XEN and Crossbow

2010-09-25 Thread Kent Watsen
[resending - originally sent this mail last night, but I don't see it posted yet] On 9/24/10 5:06 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Guys, just curious: what would you expect how complicated porting Xen to OpenIndiana would be? Suitable for a Summer of Code student? Or more a multi-month proje

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XEN and Crossbow

2010-09-24 Thread Kent Watsen
1. dom0 support has not been built for OpenIndiana because Oracle have discontinued development of it, and it won't be present in Solaris 11 Express. While it's true that Oracle discontinued xVM, this was done so as to port their Oracle VM solution to Solaris. The new solution is also Xen