[illumos-Discuss] Fate of the lx brand?

[Andrew Kinney]

On 2 Sep 2010 at 13:14, Erik Trimble wrote:

> While I really like VirtualBox, I'd vote for continued work on the Xen
> stuff before updating LX.  It's far more useful.

Agreed. VirtualBox seems ok for a desktop oriented system, but for 
serious work on a dedicated virtualization server, Xen is our 
hypervisor of choice. 

We got into OpenSolaris for Xen on ZFS with tight integration between 
the Xen related tools and the OS. 20 minutes to a working recent Xen 
on OpenSolaris, versus several hours (if you're lucky) to a working 
recent Xen on CentOS. We were disappointed to see continued work on 
Xen dom0 support officially killed off for Solaris, so now we're back 
to Xen on CentOS (aka Oracle VM), but now we're looking to Solaris 
and ZFS for the storage backend over the network.

As much as I'd like to see Xen dom0 support work with IllumOS, I only 
want that if it doesn't take away resources from the ZFS and 
networking related work.

Sincerely,
Andrew Kinney
President and
Chief Technology Officer
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.
http://www.advantagecom.net
phone: 509-522-3696 ext. 101