[geeks] Disturbing Sun articles

[Jonathan Groll]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:11:32PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:55 , 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.
>
>Every problem you list above is pretty much a software issue, not the  
>PCs fault.
>
>PCs do suck in a lot of ways, but it doesn't seem to be the root  
>problem above.

Virtualization of x86 software will work best on x86 processors rather
than sparc or power though, which is what I assume was behind the
original decision for Jonathan to buy a PC.

Cheers,
Jonathan