Move from Solaris: ARM 64 Bit Post: 302928997

Sponsored Content

Operating Systems BSD Move from Solaris: ARM 64 Bit Post 302928997 by Reclzz on Tuesday 16th of December 2014 05:53:32 PM

12-16-2014

Registered User

Move from Solaris: ARM 64 Bit

Hey all

I've been thinking of switching my x86 Solaris out with ARM 64 Bit and FreeBSD.
Now i know i can migrate my striped-mirror ZFS to FreeBSD.

So to get to the point.
I take advantage of Kernel Zones on Solaris (Routing, Firewall, Web Access and Web Page etc.) and from time to time need access to Windows Server VM.
But Solaris doesn't support ARM hardware (and probably won't).

I'll be replacing both server and Workstation.
I haven't used FreeBSD before, but guessing it won't be fundamentally different.
I know Solaris is maintained by Oracle but does that mean FreeBSD isn't as "polished"?
And can i get same functionality with FreeBSD as i currently have with Solaris?

I'm a fairly adaquate C/C++ programmer, will it be rather difficult to customize the kernel to only support my current hardware?
If so, are there any "industry secret" guide on how to do it?

Cheers
Bo Handskemager S�rensen
Denmark
9900-FRH

Reclzz

View Public Profile for Reclzz

Find all posts by Reclzz

8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Solaris

64 bit solaris 9

How can I tell if im running a 64 bit version of solaris?

2. Solaris

32 / 64 bit OS in Solaris

Dear All, This is Viswanadhan, new to Sun Solaris domain. In Sun Solaris ( SPARC ) has 32 bit and 64 bit OS. While insallation of OS there no specific option for 32 / 64 bit OS .On which basis OS installs for 32 / 64 bit OS ? Regards, Viswanadhan.

3. Solaris

Which version and Bit of Solaris OS

Hello 1) How can I find what bit of OS I am running on? 16 bit, 64 bit? 2) What is the difference in having different bits? 3) Below is the output of /etc/release/ what are all these components meaning? $ more /etc/release Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u3wos_10 X86 $ Thank...

4. Solaris

Solaris 64-bit to 32-bit

I had previous implemented the following in my menu.lst to be able to get to 32-bit operations. # title Solaris 10 32-bit root (hd0,0,a) kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot kernel/unix module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive </code> Now, it is not working as I get the following error : ...

5. Solaris

Porting C++ 32-bit code on 64-bit Solaris

Hi, I am trying to convert 32-bit code to 64-bit. I have defined function int main() { int* l; size_t len1; fun(len1); return 0; } void fun(int* ptr) { cout<<"\nsizeof(ptr)"<<sizeof(ptr); } However while compiling getting error as : Error: Formal argument ptr...

6. Solaris

Solaris os 32 bit or 64 bit

:confused: how to find out wether my os is 32 bit or 64 bit. I am using Solaris 5.6. also i want to know the difference between 32 bit and 64bit os. any help will be much appreciated as i am in urgent need of this information

7. Solaris

VCS for Solaris 32 bit OS

Hi Admins, I know that VCS supports Solaris x86-64bit only...and I need vcs for Solaris 32 bit-x86..running on vmware workstation.. I need to run vcs on vmware workstation...And my laptop support only 32bit... Please suggest.. Thanks..

8. Solaris

Solaris sticky bit

i got this archive file on sticky bit mode. somehow i could not remove the sticky bit. i could not even copy or view the view using file user account or root account. -rw-r--r-T 1 mark support 875166720 Mar 23 2005 file_mig.dat anybody encounter this type of problem? i have done running...

LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

procdesc

PROCDESC(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 					       PROCDESC(4)

NAME

     procdesc -- process descriptor facility

DESCRIPTION

     procdesc is a file-descriptor-oriented interface to process signalling and control, which supplements historic UNIX fork(2), kill(2), and
     wait4(2) primitives with new system calls such as pdfork(2), pdkill(2), and pdwait4(2).  procdesc is designed for use with capsicum(4),
     replacing process identifiers with capability-oriented references.  However, it can also be used independently of capsicum(4), displacing
     PIDs, which may otherwise suffer from race conditions.  Given a process descriptor, it is possible to query its conventional PID using
     pdgetpid(2).

SEE ALSO

     fork(2), kill(2), pdfork(2), pdgetpid(2), pdkill(2), pdwait4(2), wait4(2), capsicum(4)

HISTORY

     procdesc first appeared in FreeBSD 9.0, and was developed at the University of Cambridge.

AUTHORS

     procdesc was developed by Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> and Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@FreeBSD.org> at the University of Cambridge,
     and Ben Laurie <benl@FreeBSD.org> and Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> at Google, Inc.

BUGS

     procdesc is considered experimental in FreeBSD.

BSD
								  August 21, 2013							       BSD