On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Evert Meulie wrote: > I have been looking at various alternatives for a system that runs > several Linux & Windows guests. So far my favorite choice would be > OpenSolaris+ZFS+RAIDZ+VirtualBox. Is this combo ready to be a host > for Linux & Windows guests? Or is it not 100% stable (yet)?
The future looks quite good, but my impression is that the current VirtualBox release is not well ported to Solaris yet. It is useful for mouse and keyboard access, and is able to use the network as a client. Some other features (e.g. USB, local filesystem access) don't work right yet. Time sychronization between host and guest is not as tight as it should be so if you are using VirtualBox for software development you may see complaints about 'time skew' and possibly bad build from GNU make. As someone else mentioned, VirtualBox only runs 32-bit OSs with up to 2GB of RAM for the guest OS. My testing here shows that performance is pretty good as long as your host has plenty of RAM. Since this seems to be the ZFS list, it is worth mentioning that the since the VirtualBox guest extensions are not working so well on Solaris yet, that a local NFS mount of an exported ZFS filesystem works great to access local files, with good performance. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
