Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Oct 2007 22:06 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Recently there's been a lot of news about OpenSolaris, more specifically in reference to the great progress made by virtualization technologies in it. In this article, I will examine some of these technologies, and compare them with the state of the art on other platforms."
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</>"I deduced as much when I heard that there were no plans to ever update the linux branded zone from kernel 2.4 support."[/i]
Where did you here that from?
See here for the current status of the experimental support: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/todo/linux_2_6/
Edited 2007-10-10 02:00
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branded zones (like zones in general) have the advantage of being light weight - xen on the other hand...
Very true, a Linux installation using Xen would in no way be a lightweight solution.
Several people have posted some excellent reasons for using Branded Zones, i.e. the fact that you can deploy several zones that share disk space and resources.
Another interesting one was running the Solaris 8 userland. This would be an excellent solution for some of the NIS+ setups that I know of. As NIS+ has been deprecated in favor of LDAP, Sun no longer releases updated GUI tools to manage NIS+ domains (which they themselves recommend using when editing NIS+ DBs). You can tailor the Solaris 10 Admin GUI to deal with NIS+ but it is in now way as flexible as what was released for Solaris 8.
That last point may seem a bit archaic to some, and I'm sure others would push for a migration towards LDAP but not only is LDAP an incredibly complex beast to implement and manage, it's also the first rule of system administration to not fix what ain't broken ;-)
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> I always thought that Branded Zones where a stopgap solution untill something more robust come alone, i.e. Xen.
I don't think anyone on the inside would admit that, but I do think what you said is pretty much the case.
I deduced as much when I heard that there were no plans to ever update the linux branded zone from kernel 2.4 support.