[illumos-Discuss] Fwd: Fate of the lx brand?

[Michael]

oops ... replied to Matthias only.


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2010/9/3 Matthias Pfützner <Matthias at pfuetzner.de>:
> You (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
>> 3-4 years later, and I would say this feature (either as Janus, or as
>> an lx zone), is completely past any window of opportunity - indeed it's
>> so distant behind us now, it's not visible anymore.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Gabriel
>
> I agree fully here. Don't forget: We never saw any ISV support for either
> LX-Zones nor lxrun (we even have problems with Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 branded
> zones and ISV support!). All Linux App vendors do rely on a real Linux
> kernel. That can only be achieved by running it in a full V12N environment,
> like VBox, Xen, VMware, you-name-it. And support is a very important driver
> for business decissions in corporations...

another thing to consider is that the linux kernel the lx brand would
need to emulate is a moving target ... so even if the engineering work
were done, the ongoing maintenance effort is probably non-trivial too.

regards
Michael



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regards/mfg
Michael Schuster