[vbox-dev] Oracle Solaris OpenStack - why not using VirtualBox ?

Alexey Eromenko al4321 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 16:02:34 GMT 2015


http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2254736
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/getting-started-openstack-os11-2-2195380.html

Oracle Solaris OS supports OpenStack, a great cloud virtualization platform.
In Linux, O-S often uses KVM or XEN.
But on Solaris (and Linux) it should support VirtualBox also.

For some mysterious reason, those dudes only support Solaris containers,
instead of full-blown virtualization engine, such as VirtualBox.
Containers are faster for UNIX workloads, but for mixed workloads
(Windows+Linux+Solaris), a real virtualizer, such as VirtualBox is the best
choice possible.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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