Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Aug 2007 17:48 UTC, submitted by diegocg
The GNU libc maintainer writes: "People are starting to realize how broken the Xen model is with its privileged Dom0 domain. But the actions they want to take are simply ridiculous: they want to add the drivers back into the hypervisor. There are many technical reasons why this is a terrible idea. You'd have to add all the PCI handling and lots of other lowlevel code which is now maintained as part of the Linux kernel. But this is of course also the direction of VMWare who loudly proclaim that in the future we won't have OS as they exist today."
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Member since:2005-07-06
True, I'm hoping it will be merged soon - I'm looking forward to being able to run Windows on Xen to allow syncronisation with my MiniDisc player 
I think at the end of the day, it depends on what you actually going to use virtualisation for - is it for legacy compatibility? server consolidation? if it is for legacy compatibility one would argue it is temporarily used for transition, but I question why, for example, would have multiple server operating systems for the back end. It sounds more to me like an IBM services wet dream of complexity when standardisation on all one server platform would yield lower costs in the long run.
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2005-07-08
No....Solaris Zones are a cool thing but it's not a full virtualization solution like xen/kvm.Sun is pushing Xen as Solaris' virtualization solution
Edited 2007-08-14 19:24