[libvirt] Does libvirt support Solaris Zones?
Hi! I have a quick question, does libvirt latest release supports Solaris Zones? I know it supports LDoms and xVM support is being integrated towards xVM Server. But which release to date supports Solaris Zones? Regards, Jovial
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:31:16AM +0000, jovialGuy _ wrote:
Hi! I have a quick question, does libvirt latest release supports Solaris Zones? I know it supports LDoms and xVM support is being integrated towards xVM Server. But which release to date supports Solaris Zones?
Sun has a fork of a fairly old libvirt release (0.3.something IIRC) in which they've added LDoms support. The code is not present in the official releases of libvirt yet, and last time I looked it didn't really comply with the XML format correctly, and still needed quite alot of work done to it. Hopefully they'll find the time to re-submit the driver for inclusion in main libvirt codebase again in the future. There has been work in official releases to support Xen dom0 on Open Solaris, but I think there are still some outstanding patches in the Open Solaris repositories that aren't in our offcial releases. I'm not aware of any support for Solaris Zones, or xVM -that's VirtualBox based i guess? Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:39 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
I'm not aware of any support for Solaris Zones, or xVM -that's VirtualBox based i guess?
As usual, Sun marketing has decided to confuse people by overloading the meaning of xVM. It originally meant Sun's Xen-based virtualization solution. After purchasing VirtualBox, they decided to call it "xVM VirtualBox" and the Xen-based product "xVM Server". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_xVM
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:31:16AM +0000, jovialGuy _ wrote:
Hi! I have a quick question, does libvirt latest release supports Solaris Zones? I know it supports LDoms and xVM support is being integrated towards xVM Server. But which release to date supports Solaris Zones?
Sun has a fork of a fairly old libvirt release (0.3.something IIRC) in which they've added LDoms support. The code is not present in the official releases of libvirt yet, and last time I looked it didn't really comply with the XML format correctly, and still needed quite alot of work done to it. Hopefully they'll find the time to re-submit the driver for inclusion in main libvirt codebase again in the future.
Unfortunately, it's a case of too much to do and not enough time. The LDoms port is currently on hold.
There has been work in official releases to support Xen dom0 on Open Solaris, but I think there are still some outstanding patches in the Open Solaris repositories that aren't in our offcial releases.
We're temporarily stuck on 0.4.0 for the time being, which makes forwarding-porting patches difficult. I hope to update our internal gate to 0.4.6 within a month, which will allow me to send out some patches.
I'm not aware of any support for Solaris Zones, or xVM -that's VirtualBox based i guess?
I would like to port libvirt to Zones, but it looks unlikely that I'll have the time to do so. -Ryan
Daniel
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