Zones are in Solaris Express (Solaris 10)

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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Solaris Needs to Pay More Attention to Detail

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I've got a fairly standard Sun Ultra2 Creator3D workstation. Solaris 9 was a complete horror show... I've got many years experience noodling around with Solaris, from it's old SunOS 4 days as "Solaris 1" right up to Solaris 7 (2.7, for those on the inside.) I know what the hell I'm doing, but I was completely baffled and defeated by Solaris 9. Nothing worked, from the installer to the administration utilities (command line and GUI) to the SunScreen firewall software. I spent a week trying to get this basic web server/NAT firewall up and running. It's lack of attention to basic detail is inexcuseable, and goes a long way toward explainging why Sun has lost so much market share in the past two years. IBM's a PITA to work with, but it's well documented and works out of the box with only a bit of tinkering.

For grins, I popped out the extra processor, and loaded, configured and deployed OpenBSD in all of three hours, NAT and Apache and DJBDNS and all.

I tried an earlier build of Solaris 10, and it didn't go at all well. I'll try this one (which purportedly has a Sun-comissioned version of IPfilter), and if I can't get it to do what I want in an afternoon, I'll slap SuSe on it instead. Or Gentoo... Gentoo might be fun, even if does take forever to compile.

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