xen discuss - May 2006 - Question about Xen on Solaris

Dear Friends,

I am thinking about Xen for a specialised peice of work.

In particular, I have a very specialised Solaris application which is Sun
hardware specific; It will not run on Solaris x86 - it is mad i know. There are
a number of servers that run along side the Sun system which is executing the
mad application, namely a couple of windows and linux''s servers. I
would like to reduce the hardware count by integrating the servers into a common
hardware. Because of the specialised Solaris application, I cannot do away with
Sun hardware (probably would not want to either!), introduce x86 hardware and go
Solaris x86.

[u]The Dream:[/u]

As such, I would have to start with a basic installation of Solaris on the
target Sun bare-metal hardware, then next install Xen ontop of the Solaris
installation. Next, I hope to create the appropriate VMs to run instances of
windows and linux''s OSs.

[u]Questions:[/u]

1) is there a Xen port to install ontop of a Solaris installation running on Sun
hardware?
2) will I be able to run Windows, eg win2k, within the above? this is in view of
the need for VT-x capable hardware on the x86 platform.
3) will I be able to run linux, within the above?

I really appreciate your kind help.
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On 31 May 2006, at 10:20am, Fellow wrote:
> In particular, I have a very specialised Solaris application which  
> is Sun hardware specific; It will not run on Solaris x86 - it is  
> mad i know. There are a number of servers that run along side the  
> Sun system which is executing the mad application, namely a couple  
> of windows and linux''s servers. I would like to reduce the
hardware
> count by integrating the servers into a common hardware. Because of  
> the specialised Solaris application, I cannot do away with Sun  
> hardware (probably would not want to either!), introduce x86  
> hardware and go Solaris x86.
I''m unsure, but it sounds as though your application only runs on  
systems with UltraSparc processors.  If that is true then Xen will  
not currently be of any assistance, as it doesn''t yet run on
UltraSparc.

dme.

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