Re: ldom question

On 10/04/2015 08:36, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Scarlett <[email protected]> [2015-04-07 19:32]:
>> On 07/04/2015 15:12, Jeremiah Ford wrote:
>>> My last question, a perhaps less constructive one, why isn't this more widely used?  There are so many people running OpenBSD on Linux KVM, I would think that this is the solution they have been looking for.
>>> Thanks again, already read the manual for ldomctl, plan on finishing reading Sun's docs next.
>> Lack of mindshare is the primary reason.
>
> Well. The sparc64 ldoms are dog slow compared to the usual amd64
> virtualization options, with a comparable power budget and hardware
> cost rather much higher than lower. I wish it was different :(
>
> The static config requiring a host/dom0/$preferred_nomenclature reboot
> to reassign CPUs etc is also hindering - but the above really is the
> killer.
>
>> For most cheap VPS providers Linux is considered the primary target, with
>> the exception of a few like RootBSD, where FreeBSD is the focus. It'd be
>> nice if there was someone providing OpenBSD-backed SPARC64, though.
>
> We use ldoms for some services internally, writing the systems
> integration for automatic config/deployment, start/stop, console access
> etc never made sense from the business PoV.
>
> <shameless plug>
> if you really want a sparc64 ldom, poke me and I'm sure we can work
> sth out.
> </shameless plug>
>

That's a shame :/ Do you know/have any guesses where the performance 
problems are coming from?

Mostly I just want something SPARC64 and small of my own, to use for 
testing software and maybe working on a few ports. For the second use a 
local box with radeondrm support would be more convenient, though...