As I said above, OpenSolaris is dead. illumos is a fork. We don't take code from Oracle, because there isn't any. If they'd kept the gate open, a fork probably wouldn't have happened.
As for why not to just move from Solaris to FreeBSD... because they're totally different beasts? And we happen to like Solaris? :-)
Porting KVM to Solaris was apparently quite non-trivial:
As for why not to just move from Solaris to FreeBSD... because they're totally different beasts? And we happen to like Solaris? :-)
Porting KVM to Solaris was apparently quite non-trivial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o