[geeks] Disturbing Sun articles

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Thu Sep 4 10:33:28 CDT 2008


Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> [0] The Tyan motherboard I have won't run ESX.  The RAID card I have isn't
>     supported by Solaris.  Apart from VMware Server (and its atrocious I/O
>     performance), Xen (which I couldn't get to work quite right on RHEL 5)
>     and Microsoft HyperV, I can't virtualize on this huge box.  This is
>     all top-shelf hardware, but, together, can't do what I bought it to do
>     because the PC platform is such garbage.

Have you looked at VirtualBox.org?  Seems to work decently well when I
tested it.  Only problem is getting around the NAT-by-default networking
setup.  Runs on many different OSes.

--Patrick



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