Joyent Open Sources SmartOS: Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM
I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around this.  If Joyent wanted to stick with a UNIX then why not FreeBSD and help implement KVM there? Wasn't XEN already available for Dom0? I just don't see much mindshare in Illumos/SmartOS for keeping up with current server hardware drivers.  I really would have liked to see one of the existing BSDs benefit from the time they've put into this project.<p>Obviously Linux already has KVM, and there are new implmentations of DTrace and ZFS.  Btrfs is not too many more kernel releases away from being considered stable(fsck being a glaring problem) and if you want container-based virtualization you've got LXC(some prefer OpenVZ).<p>With that said, who is their target audience?