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Virtually all of the work that we do in the illumos community is on x86 -- and not merely keeping it functional, but actively advancing the state of the art. Fo
by bcantrill 14y ago
Virtually all of the work that we do in the illumos community is on x86 -- and not merely keeping it functional, but actively advancing the state of the art. For example, we at Joyent ported KVM to illumos last year[1], and since that time we have deployed many thousands of virtual (x86) machines into production on (x86) hardware running SmartOS, our illumos derivative.[2]
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/459754/ http://lwn.net/Articles/459754/
[2] http://smartos.org/ http://smartos.org/
- blinkingled 14y agoI keep a tab on those but I was more talking about real desktop/laptop/workstation class x86 hardware, not VM. I have tried and given up running Solaris derivatives on bare metal even if for running just command line. The hardware /peripheral support just doesn't seem to be there.
- dmpk2k 14y agoThere is a simple way to guarantee that an Illumos distro works, and that's to use Intel for everything: chip, motherboard, nics, you name it. Other setups can work, but you need to be very aware of this: http://illumos.org/hcl/ http://illumos.org/hcl/