Stephen Harris wrote:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:30:42AM -0800, nate wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
ZFS is really nice. If VMware was supported on Solaris 86 then I would have built my own home server with Solaris rather than CentOS. (Although I'm not using VMware on that machine, at present; merely UserModeLinux for my protected instances). But CentOS is handling my 5*1Tbyte RAID5 OK for now :-)
You know the inverse is true right? Solaris is supported on VMWare ESX(i). Though SATA disks are not officially supported by the VMFS file system in 3.x.
I wanted Solaris as the Host OS so it could natively manage my disks via ZFS. Making it a guest would be pointless. Underneath that I would run a couple of smaller Linux instances (eg for internet facing services), maybe a Windows instance and so on.
Have you looked at virtualbox (http://www.virtualbox.org/)? I haven't tried it myself but it looks like a match for vmware and can be hosted on solaris.