Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 19th Aug 2008 14:44 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
How does OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to free its big-iron OS, fare from a Linux user's point of view? Is it merely a passable curiosity right now, or is it truly worth installing? Linux Format takes OpenSolaris for a test drive, examining the similarities and differences to a typical Linux distro.
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Solaris replaced Linux and Xen on this box, and I have to say that Xen crawled (compared to zones)...
You are comparing Hypervisor type 1 performance (xen) to Os level wirtualization (zones/containers) so its like you compare apples to oranges.
Your comparasion would be good if you would compare Solaris' xVM - implementation of Xen and Xen on Linux.
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2008-07-01
VMWare does not support Solaris very well. Especially desktop versions of VMWare. Recent versions of Solaris have timekeeping problems under VMWare, that is why everything slows down. Try it on a real hardware.
I have it running on Quad-core Phenom with 2GB of RAM, with 4 local zones configured, and it works _really_ fast. Solaris replaced Linux and Xen on this box, and I have to say that Xen crawled (compared to zones)...
One thing that sucks in OpenSolaris in my opinion is their new package management system, ipkg. It's so slow that it's near unusable.