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Can anyone elaborate: why all these cloud webhosting people are taking legal risks of Oracle changing license for (Open)Solaris or closing this OS project entir
by mkup 15y ago
Can anyone elaborate: why all these cloud webhosting people are taking legal risks of Oracle changing license for (Open)Solaris or closing this OS project entirely, legal risks of being sued by Oracle for patent infrigement / whatever else legal bullshit?
They could just port KVM to FreeBSD instead; FreeBSD already has ZFS, DTrace and all other necessary bells and whistles for cloud webhosting infrastructure. But in contrast to (Open)Solaris they have community support for new hardware, a lot of already working drivers for existing hardware and also much safer legal position.
Are there any technical difficulties with porting KVM to FreeBSD? Can anyone elaborate?
- justauser 15y agoFreeBSD will have it's own native type 2 hypervisor soon, BHyVe. http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe
- bdha 15y agoAs I said above, OpenSolaris is dead. illumos is a fork. We don't take code from Oracle, because there isn't any. If they'd kept the gate open, a fork probably wouldn't have happened. As for why not to just move from Solaris to FreeBSD... because they're totally different beasts? And we happen to like Solaris? :-) Porting KVM to Solaris was apparently quite non-trivial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o