On Nov 9, 2008, at 11:38 AM, 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. You know you may not find VMware server for Solaris, but there is always Xen or VirtualBox. -Ross