[OmniOS-discuss] combo storage/virtualization server

[Paul B. Henson]

On 8/8/2012 2:54 PM, Eric Sproul wrote:

> OmniTI has been using OmniOS in production for quite some time.  We do
> both native zones and Linux as KVM guests in our environments.  It
> works well.

Good to hear :), I'll definitely give it a spin.

> The biggest issue with OpenIndiana minimization was the interlocking
> incorporation dependencies.

Ah, yes, IPS <sigh>. That definitely wouldn't be a problem with illumian 
then.

> AIUI, Illumian is taking the Illumos core plus whatever other userland
> bits they want, and packaging them with dpkg/apt.  As to their focus
> on desktop vs. server or both, I have no information.

Based on recent conversation, my understanding is that illumian is going 
to be positioned for servers, and StormOS is going to take it and extend 
it with a GUI and desktop oriented packages. They're not going to 
support kvm though, at least not initially.

Thanks much for the reply...