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patrickg-zill on Nov 27, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: TBray Response: Sun Should Stop Sucking

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.

tptacek on Nov 27, 2008 [–]

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.

gaius on Nov 27, 2008 | [–]

The flipside of that is update-on-attach, which Xen doesn't have.

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