Point taken, thank you!
So, if it OpenSolaris based, then nothing to see here. Community is too small. Who will write and test up-to-date drivers for all new hardware that vendors are pushing to the market each half-of-year?
So, if it OpenSolaris based, then nothing to see here. Community is too small. Who will write and test up-to-date drivers for all new hardware that vendors are pushing to the market each half-of-year?
I had a lot of experience with Solaris (x86 only - people tried to run Informix/Oracle on a cheap hardware) starting from Solaris 7 and onwards. It was always a problem even to install it. And lack of working compiler makes things even worse.
Starting from Solaris 10 they did a lot of work to improve the overall experience, but too late - everyone migrated to Linux to run the same crap.
And I must say, that after it was installed and tuned it was running quite stable as a database server and it can deal with heavy loads, while similar Linux instances failed now and then. But it was 5 years ago. Modern Linux kernels can handle everything quite well.
Joyent probably has fairly homogeneous racks of servers. They only need a few drivers for their entire system, and they have people capable of writing them. If they can port KVM from Linux to illumos, what makes you think they can't port or write a driver?