[desktop-discuss] products i wish were available on Solaris x86

[Garrett D'Amore]

Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:21:28AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>   
>>     - VMWare.  It would be really, really cool if I could run VMWare
>> player on Solaris, or even better, the VMWare Server product.   Then I
>> could create virtual instances of Solaris, and also host NetBSD (or,
>> gasp, even Linux!) inside VMWare.  As I do kernel development of NetBSD,
>> this would be really, really useful to me.
>>
>> There are probably other things that people want, but the VMWare product
>> would immediately make most things available, and requires less overhead
>> than other solutions.   (I know, I could probably set up a Solaris Zone,
>> run Linux in it, and host the VMWare player in it.  Has anyone tried
>> that?  I still haven't tried Solaris Zones, but I'm also running Solaris
>> 10 3/05.  I suppose I should upgrade...)
>>
>>     
>
> vmware won't work in lx branded zones becaouse it requires a special
> driver that is not available on solaris.  (Linux emulation in branded
> zones is done at the system call level so we can't run linux drivers.)
>
> ed
>   

Thanks for the info.  I suspected that this _might_ be the case, but I
hadn't researched vmware before.  So, I really want VMware on Solaris. :-)

I noticed that Andy Tucker of Solaris engineering fame has moved to
VMWare.  I consider this a big loss for Sun, but hopefully at least he
is can be a champion for Solaris at VMWare.  I posted this particular
question on his blog today.  I will let folks know what I hear back, if
anything.

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
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General Dynamics C4 Systems
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