When Xen gets ready, it will be possible to implement this functionality - practically all of it - in FreeBSD. Jails have been implemented for 10 years+.
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AIX lpars and wpars... sounds familiar
I'm reading this article about LPARs and WPARs in AIX and it sounds familiar.
It looks like LPARs are equivalent to full virtual machines, like in VMWare, VirtualBox, or Xen, and WPARs look like Jails.
Posted on 2008-12-30T05:18 by ivoras
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#1 Re: AIX lpars and wpars... sounds familiar
we need Xen ... but we oldsters need to leave the sysadmin tasks on linux windows etc. instances to the young folks - which is why we need in Xen in dom0 ;-)
I'd love to run a FreeBSD based machine (i.e. using bsd based tools and user space) as a Xen "instance provider/server" - especially with jails and tricky 8.0 virtnet/vfs features *inside* Xen. I think it's also important for FreeBSD to run *really well* in Xen and OpenSolaris/Solaris xVM technologies.
Hopefully a bunch of problems will get solved all at once with vfs and xen improvements coming in CURRENT.
#2 Re: AIX lpars and wpars... sounds familiar
Yes, I was thinking about Xen dom0 - domU is fine but not as useful.