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Virtualization Solutions for Solaris 11.4 (x64)

Steffen MoserDec 15 2020 — edited Dec 15 2020

Hi all,
are there any other virtualization solutions running on Solaris 11.4 x64 besides VirtualBox? Does anybody know of tools like KVM, QEMU and so on running on a Solaris 11 x64 host?
We currently have many Solaris Zones (which works like a charm) and a few VirtualBox VMs with Linux as a guest (which does not work so well when it comes to high CPU load) on big Solaris 11.4 x64 servers. We do see huge performance impacts when we allocate more vCPUs to a VirtualBox guest than the host has on a socket. VirtualBox presents all vCPUs as cores on one socket, so the host's NUMA architecture is totally hidden from the guest. Not being aware of the NUMA architecture makes the guest acting inefficiently especially when running real-time applications like the videoconferencing tool BigBlueButton. For this reason, I am, on the one hand, looking for, let's say, "tuning" VirtualBox. On the other hand, I would like to find out if there are further tools for virtualization besides VirtualBox.
As far as I have seen, the Branded Kernel Zones feature does not support running Linux anymore. Is this a fundamental lack of support since 11.3 or are there just missing packets? I have never worked with Kernel Zones or Branded Kernel Zones, yet.
Could Oracle VM Server for x86 be a possible solution? As far as I know, this approach does not run on Solaris, but on bare-metal like XEN. Solaris could then be part of one "domU" (in the slang of "XEN"). Is this correct?
I would be very glad if someone could enlighten me a bit. Thank you very much in advance!
Kind regards,
Steffen

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