"Necessity is the mother of technological innovation" -- a much cited axiom -- is demonstrated once again as Jignesh K. Shah writes about his creation of an OVF image less than 270MB in size that users can employ to work with the OpenSolaris kernel in VirtualBox 2.2. In fact, he writes in his blog, it can be used to install the rest of the OpenSolaris Desktop to get to the default full blown installation of OpenSolaris 2008.11.
Before attempting to setup virtual machines on your own, check out this beginner's guide that walks users through the installation of VirtualBox, a free open source virtual application. In the article by Kevin Purdy, he suggested that anyone who wants to use a separate operating system (OS) might want to consider setting up a virtualization system.
The IDC white paper "Virtualizing the Infrastructure with Sun x86 Blades" by Jed Scaramella and Jean S. Bozman examines the ongoing customer requirements for server platforms and the concomitant upward pressure on power and cooling costs as datacenters become increasingly crowded with computer systems.
VirtualBox 2.2.2 is available as a maintenance release. It comes less than a month after major release VirtualBox 2.2 and fixes 31 reported bugs. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also open source.
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