Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Jan 2008 09:27 UTC, submitted by erast
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris Nexenta Core Platform RC3 is available for download now. Main feature is Xen Dom0/DomU platform support. Other changes in this release includes: critical fixes for native CIFS server, critical fixes for ZFS, critical bug fixes for SATA and networking stacks. CIFS client now included. The Debian apt repository is now complete, with about 2500 tested packages.
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Xen
by vermaden on Mon 28th Jan 2008 10:17 UTC
vermaden
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2006-11-18

Xen dom0 support, a great addition to already big feature list, Nexenta looks very promising OpenSolaris based OS.

RE: Xen
by gilboa on Mon 28th Jan 2008 16:35 in reply to "Xen"
gilboa Member since:
2005-07-06

... Now if only someone would club nVidia into supporting Xen. (Xen under Solaris, just like Linux, is unsupported.)

- Gilboa

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RE[2]: Xen
by vermaden on Tue 29th Jan 2008 06:09 in reply to "RE: Xen"
vermaden Member since:
2006-11-18

A project to provide hardware accelration to Xen domU guests already exist, and even works, here:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl

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