News: Apr 12, 2012
Mike LaSpina, an old friend to OpenSolaris, writes: “What makes Illumos so attractive? The answer is a handful of exceptionally well-engineered components and features. One recently added feature positions Illumos as a major competitor to Solaris and Linux in the cloud computing space. Max Bruning, Robert Mustacchi, and Bryan Cantrill, all ex-Sun, ported KVM to Illumos. KVM, or kernel-based virtual machine, is an Intel x86 architecture hypervisor service that enables Illumos to use hardware-based virtualization features within the CPU. Currently, Intel chips are supported, with AMD silicon soon to follow. KVM provisions “bare metal operating speed,” bringing Illumos on par with Linux KVM and leaving Solaris Virtual Box behind as a hypervisor platform.” - read more at IT Software Community
dtrace.conf 2012: final schedule of talks with links to slides and videos
