Hi, wondering what Oracle''s intention is wrt. to Solaris/Xen on x86. For me it looks like, that Oracle has no intention to further invest in development of Solaris as Dom0 but is rather focused on its Linux? based x86 OVM ... Does anybody have other information? Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768
Speculation:
Surely after going to such great lengths to acquire unix,
they''d not continue to try to shoehorn Linux into an enterprise
posture, would they?
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Jens Elkner
<jel+xen@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:> Hi,
>
> wondering what Oracle''s intention is wrt. to Solaris/Xen on x86.
For me it
> looks like, that Oracle has no intention to further invest in development
> of Solaris as Dom0 but is rather focused on its Linux? based x86 OVM ...
>
> Does anybody have other information?
>
> Regards,
> jel.
> --
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On 28 Jan 2010, at 4:18pm, Jens Elkner wrote:> wondering what Oracle''s intention is wrt. to Solaris/Xen on x86. For me it > looks like, that Oracle has no intention to further invest in development > of Solaris as Dom0 but is rather focused on its Linux? based x86 OVM ... > > Does anybody have other information?The Sun/Oracle staff here are generally engineers. As such we are not in a position to give you details of any future roadmap. I''m sure that there are efforts underway to communicate the direction, so I''d recommend that you contact your Sun/Oracle sales or support representative. It may be, of course, that the full details are not yet worked out - don''t expect to necessarily see something in the next few days.
What kernel to support Dom0 ( x86 OVM) Oracle has in meantime ? Xen 4.0 with PVOps 2.6.31.(?) is not out yet. Moreover as far as APIC Rework will be committed the most recent PVOps kernel would work only with Xen 4.0 or 3.4 with corresponding back-ports per my understanding. View:- http://old.nabble.com/xen.git-plans-tt26894238.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:26:13AM -0500, Jacob Ritorto wrote:> Speculation: > Surely after going to such great lengths to acquire unix, > they''d not continue to try to shoehorn Linux into an enterprise > posture, would they?Who knows? Having an OS, where one can twiddle any knobs at wish and doesn''t depend on the goodwill of others/Linus sponsoring is certainly a big advantage. However, AFAIUI (1) Xen development basically happens on Linux, (2) the only thing one may rely on wrt. Oracle presentations/website is Solaris+SPARC and ZFS, (3) Oracle has had almost a year, but it still keeps a low profile wrt. x86+Solaris. So for me it currently looks like, we are going back wrt. SW development/availability to a state, we had about 10 years ago ... But we''ll see - sometimes wonder happen ;-) Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768