Porting KVM to SmartOS - Brian Cantrill, Joyent, KVM Forum 2011

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panick21_ · 2024-09 · Reference

Bryan Cantrill also ported KVM to Illumos. At Joyent they had plenty of experience with KVM. See: [VIDEO] As far as I know, Bryan didn't personally work on the porting of bhyve (this might be wrong). So if anything, that would point to KVM as the 'familiar' thing given how many former Joyant people were there.

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bcantrill · 2018-11 · Reference

Hey now -- I'm not quite that easily impressed! ;) This is a problem domain that I have suffered in[1] -- and we have recently moved from KVM to bhyve[2] for several of the same reasons that motivated Firecracker. Not that it hurt that it was in Rust, of course... ;) [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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bcantrill · 2016-12 · Reference

From my perspective, if this rumor is true, it's a relief. Solaris died the moment that they made the source proprietary -- a decision so incredibly stupid that it still makes my head hurt six years later. Fortunately, Solaris was open long enough that we in the open source world were able to fork it with illumos[1]. And because illumos became the home for many of us that brought Solaris its most famous innovations (e.g., ZFS, DTrace and zones), it should come as no surprise that we've continued to innovate over the last six years. (Speaking only for Joyent, we added revolutionary debugging support for node.js[2], ported KVM to it[3], completed and productized Linux-branded zones[4], added software-defined networking[5] and developed first-class Docker integration[6] -- among many, many other innovations.) So illumos (and derivatives like SmartOS, OmniOS and DelphixOS) is vibrant and alive -- but one of our biggest challenges has been its association with the name "Solaris": I don't think of our system as Solaris any more than I think of it as "SVR4" or "SunOS" or "7th Edition" or any of its other names -- and the very presence of Solaris has served to confuse. And indeed, it is my good fortune to be working with a new generation of engineers on the operating system -- engineers for whom the term "Solaris" is entirely distant and its presence as an actual (if proprietary) system befuddling. So if the rumor is true (and I suspect that it is), it will allow everyone to know wha

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