Well, you did say "Solaris zones UX is still unsurpassed"
Still implies that it was always good..
It was absolutely terrible in Solaris 10. Maybe it's better now. Maybe with solaris 11 they fixed it so you didn't have to chose between a full zone that took 5GB or a 400MB sparse zone that would break in fun ways when you tried to do anything.
At the time I was using xen+debian and a 'full' vm for me was about 200MB. Basically base system+sshd+whatever daemon I needed to run. Attempting to do the same thing using zones was a complete disaster.
Still implies that it was always good..
It was absolutely terrible in Solaris 10. Maybe it's better now. Maybe with solaris 11 they fixed it so you didn't have to chose between a full zone that took 5GB or a 400MB sparse zone that would break in fun ways when you tried to do anything.
At the time I was using xen+debian and a 'full' vm for me was about 200MB. Basically base system+sshd+whatever daemon I needed to run. Attempting to do the same thing using zones was a complete disaster.