Veteran blogger Andre Wenas has assembled a blog that outlines Sun VM, including products, installation instructions, and using Windows XP on Sun xVM. The blog includes hyperlinks to several xVM-related sites. Wenas defines Sun xVM as a family of technologies that addresses both desktop and server virtualization, leveraging work from open source communities like Xen that is being built on proven Sun technology.

Wenas talks about the Sun xVM Ops Center, a complete, highly scalable datacenter automation tool, and its ability to simplify discovery, provisioning, updates and management of physical and virtualized assets in cross-platform Linux and Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)-based x86 and SPARC environments

The blogger explains his choice of Sun xVM over VMware and Linux+Xen and he also discusses the two types of virtual machine: Hardware Virtual Machine and Para Virtual Machine.

Wenas also outlines the starting of domainU configuration and its cloning, noting that one can clone domU in as little as one minute. He shows as well how to set up cifs server if one is running Windows domU and the use of virt-manager as a GUI interface to manage Sun xVM.

Outside of Wenas' blog, other sources for more Sun xVM information:

• Sun xVM BluePrint
• Sun xVM Presentation
• Open xVM Website
• OpenSolaris xVM Website
• xVM ClusterAgent [...read more...]
  
  
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