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If you find one let me know. I'm in need of one also.
The best you can probably get is KVM.
KVM isn't perfect though as USB support is broken in Solaris 11. It's possible it's better in one of the opensource versions.
Francisco
Dumb question but, why I may need USB? An usb stick? xDDD
well, to actually install the OS
KVM uses USB for the mouse and keyboard so it wouldn't work. It's possible they've fixed that since then but yup.
Francisco
Wow, that's weird :S
Not really
PS/2 doesn't support hot plugging (or at least not w/o chancing a server lockup) so it was obvious they'd be using USB to handle their CDROM and a lot of things like that. USB I guess was just easy for them to work with
Francisco
PS/2 is fine to hotplug - you'd run the risk of burning out I/O lines on flaky hardware back in the 90s. I don't know why QEMU/KVM uses USB for the keyboard, but they use an emulated USB tablet as the mouse because it reports absolute positions, not relative positions.
I was just introduced to Solaris Containers tonight at work and after some research it sounds similar to OpenVZ for Linux. I plan on playing around with OpenSolaris so I can get familiar with it but it looks like Containers is included in it also. I might setup a node just to play with but if you are interested send me a PM (these won't be production, just for testing/learning).
Might wanna look at http://smartos.org/ also.
I think even VirtualBox uses USB now. PS/2 is like dead now.
Tried OpenSolaris? but I don't know why you would need Solaris.
If you want native support of ZFS then you will either want Solaris or FreeBSD.
Many people use ZFS for a SAN or NAS.
ZFS is amazing.
At work we use Solaris and RedHat for our *nix servers, I'm familiar with RedHat but I've never used Solaris so it'd be nice for me to play around on something I am able to break and rebuild.