Sun gets Xen
Posted by Fraser Campbell Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:25:00 GMT
Not entirely a Linux story but we love Xen so why not …
It has long been known that Sun planned to virtualize their Opteron boxes using Xen, see this Nov 2005 release for example.
Recently they are making noises about officially supporting Xen on Sparc as well. Xen on a T2000 (64 thread CPU) would be interesting but the question remaining is whether a few threads of a T2000 would give a virtual machine sufficient performance to run at more than a snails pace.
See report Sun servers to get new multi-OS abilities, on news.com – the virtualization features will probably not be based on Xen until 2007.
Linux doesn’t run on T1000 and T2000 processors yet but it should be just a matter of time.
We wish Sun much luck with their new platform, for massively parallel applications T* (formerly Niagara) could be the chip to beat.
For competitive opinions you might want to read some “Niagara bashing” on HP’s page titled The Real Story about Sun’s CoolThreads.
