[ILUG] VMWare and alternatives

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Terry Cox wrote:

> An alternative to vmware (but not the same type of product really) 
> is Solaris10 x64. You can run multiple Solaris containers on the 
> one piece of hardware, each with their own root etc, i.e their own 
> private environment but still one instance of the OS is loaded.

One /kernel/ - multiple instances of the userland OS though.

You can also run Linux userlands in Solaris zones (though, not yet 
very recent glibc's which depend on recent Linux 2.6 features, I 
think).

> specifically required. Sun also Support Linux apps on Solaris 10 
> x64 but it does require the Linux OS.

x86 you mean. Not sure if Linux x86-64 support is there yet. Further, 
it's still under development, not in a Solaris 10 update yet, not 
even putback to ON yet. It's available via OpenSolaris only at this 
stage -> BrandZ:

 	http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/

regards,
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