SmartOS and now OmniOS are on the way to become a serious virtualisation platform alternative to ESXi or Proxmox. Especially with OmniOS as this is a full featured storage platform for an enterprise class NAS or SAN as well.
As SmartOS offers lightweight virtualisation for Solaris zones, Linux zones and a full virtualisation with KVM example this Windows VM I would suggest not to mix them in one thread as they behave quite different
btw
I have extended the add-on menu (napp-it 16.07f+) to start/stop/add/remove LX branded zones.
read also the following about container (Docker/lx branded zones) and full virtualisation via KVM
from 2007
Cuddletech | Zones start looking like Containers: CPU and Memory Caps
from 2016
Cuddletech | Containers, Now and Then
Docker on SmartOS optionally OmniOS, next step?
Joyent | Triton: Docker and the “best of all worlds”
Joyent | Dockerizing my first app
Docker on SmartOS, the harder way
As SmartOS offers lightweight virtualisation for Solaris zones, Linux zones and a full virtualisation with KVM example this Windows VM I would suggest not to mix them in one thread as they behave quite different
btw
I have extended the add-on menu (napp-it 16.07f+) to start/stop/add/remove LX branded zones.
read also the following about container (Docker/lx branded zones) and full virtualisation via KVM
from 2007
Cuddletech | Zones start looking like Containers: CPU and Memory Caps
from 2016
Cuddletech | Containers, Now and Then
Docker on SmartOS optionally OmniOS, next step?
Joyent | Triton: Docker and the “best of all worlds”
Joyent | Dockerizing my first app
Docker on SmartOS, the harder way
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