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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:52:52PM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:33:37 +0100 > Simon Waters wrote: > > > Grant Sewell wrote: > > > > > > I have just inherited a Sun SunBlade 1000 machine. It would seem > > > that it uses the UltraSPARC III CPU. This would be my first outing > > > into the non x86 world. We are looking to setup 3 virtual machines > > > on this box. I'm happy to setup Debian as the base system (Debian > > > still actively supports the SPARC/SPARC64 arch. doesn't it?) but > > > the guys for whom this machine is being setup have asked for a > > > RedHat/Fedora type system installed on the virtual machines. > > > > What is the reason for not using Solaris? > > No reason other than unfamiliarity. I have downloaded Solaris 10 and > OpenSolaris. Other than "zones", what virtualisation technology does > Open/Solaris support? Can RedHat-type Linux systems be installed into > them? Obviously not in "zones" (I am right in thinking that only other > instances of Solaris can be run in a Solaris zone?). If zones work how I seem to remember they do, there’s only one instance of the kernel but the userspace is ‘partitioned’, similar to FreeBSD’s jails, so only Solaris can be run in them (or, at least, only something using a Solaris kernel — could be OpenSolaris etc.). -- Benjamin M. A’Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://bma.subvert.org.uk/ || gpg: 0x166891C7 “I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization.” — Eugene V. Debs, Open letter to the American Railway Union, Chicago Railway Times (January 1, 1897) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html