[illumos-Developer] Something for later but interesting IMHO

Michael michaelsprivate at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 04:00:22 PDT 2010


2010/8/17 Damian Wojsław <damian at wojslaw.pl>:
> Ho, I'm thinking what would have to be done to add virt flags support to
> OpenSolaris? I have Core2 quad cpu with those flags (recognised and
> supported in Linux) which are unsupported in OpenSolaris 134 and 142. I'd
> really preffer to host my virtual machines within opensolaris, but I can't
> install 64bit guests, which are a must for me. I dpn't even know where to
> start implementing it and if it would seriously change kernel, but maybe
> someone else has any ideas or  a time to prepare a patch?

although this doesn't exactly answer your question: have you looked
into VirtualBox? I've been running it fine on a machine that somewhat
matches your description

HTH
-- 
regards/mfg
Michael Schuster



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