Opening Day for OpenSolaris on Xen
Today, we're making the first source code of our OpenSolaris on Xen project available to the OpenSolaris developer community.
There are many bugs still in waiting, many puzzles to be solved, many things left to do.
A true work in progress.
Because we don't believe the developer community only wants finished projects to test. We believe that some developers want to participate during the development process, and now this project can open its doors to that kind of participation.
We wanted to start the conversation with working code. So we have a snapshot of our development tree for OpenSolaris on Xen, synced up with Nevada build 31. That code snapshot should be able to boot and run on all the hardware that build 31 can today, plus it can boot as a diskless unprivileged domain on Xen 3.0. While we were in our final approach to this release, we got live migration to work too, which is one of the key features we've been working on.
Running on Xen, OpenSolaris is reasonably stable, but it's still very much "pre-alpha" compared with our usual finished code quality. Installing and configuring a client is do-able, but not for the faint of heart.
To find out more, see the OpenSolaris on Xen community
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