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Re:TBray Response: Sun Should Stop Sucking by patrickg-zill on Thursday November 27, 2008 @12:34AM (#378454)
For some classes of problems, Sun has a better, more robust solution in the form of Zones.

Sun also has Xen and VirtualBox (not as good as VMWare yet).

If you don't like Zones, fine. However many people are using them in a way that serves their needs - but perhaps not yours.

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Re:TBray Response: Sun Should Stop Sucking by tptacek on Thursday November 27, 2008 @12:22PM (#378775)
Zones are far less robust than Xen or VMWare. They're a short step up from chroot. Any Solaris kernel problem takes down all the zones, and there are a number of ways zones can influence other zones.
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Re:TBray Response: Sun Should Stop Sucking by gaius on Thursday November 27, 2008 @05:12PM (#378940)
The flipside of that is update-on-attach, which Xen doesn't have.
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