On 1 Mar 2008, at 16:09, Octave Orgeron wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think I can clear some of this up. Below are all the current and  
> future virtualization products from Sun:
>
> 1. Dynamic System Domains (hardware partitions) E10k, E3800-25K, M4k- 
> M9k
> 2. Logical Domains (para-virtualization) UltraSPARC-T1 and  
> UltraSPARC-T2 (in the future ROCK) based servers. Here's a list of  
> those systems today: 
> http://www.sun.com/servers/index.jsp?cat=CoolThreads%20Servers&tab=3&subcat=UltraSPARC%20T2%20and%20T1
> 3. Solaris Containers (OS virtualization) runs on Solaris 10 and  
> above on either SPARC or x86/x64
> 4. xVM Server (Xen - para-virtualization/full-virtualization) runs  
> on Solaris 10 U5 and above on x86/x64
> 5. xVM Opscenter is a management tool that'll manage containers,  
> LDoms, and xVM Server.
> 6. VirtualBox (QEMU based - full-virtualization) runs on  
> OpenSolaris, Linux, and MacOSX only on x86/x64. More info here: 
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox

Neat.  Although I remember when Sun's strong point was providing one  
solution that scaled beautifully to all architectures :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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