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Zones are in Solaris Express (Solaris 10)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-want-my-processes-in-the-danger-zone dept.

snoofy writes "Zones, as people from SUN Microsystems have talked about for some time are now available in solaris express (the pre-release of Solaris 10). This will let you virtualize Solaris so that processes run in isolation from other activity on the system... A system can then be configured to run several zones which will make it look like different systems on the network Some info from a posting to comp.unix.solaris. The cool stuff is that it works on both SPARC and x86."

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  1. Re:Hmmm.... by CoolGopher · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you run Solaris on x86 in a production environment you're an idiot.

    If you want Solaris, stick to Sparc. If you want NT/2k, then go for x86. Whether or not you might be an idiot for wanting NT/2k in the first place I'll leave for others to "discuss".

  2. Been there, done that... FreeBSD did jails first.. by TheTitan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is anyone else tired of Sun's copycat software development? Sun, go home, your development efforts aren't interesting to those who think outside of the box anymore. FreeBSD has had jails since March 2000. Sure jail(8) never had a marketing department come along to spiff up the name, but your software is of no interest anymore.

    Now, what Sun can do with an Opteron, on the other hand, is of interest.

    T SUN PLZ BE SHIPPINK ME A 32 WAY OPTERON TEST BOX K PLZ THX

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    -- Sean Chittenden