In a blog that deals with Windows, OpenSolaris and VirtualBox, Sun engineer Alan Hargreaves recounts his experience with loading VirtualBox and a release candidate ISO of OpenSolaris 2009.06 on his laptop. He also used the exclusive-to-Sun-employees test tool punchin. His first caution is not to attempt this install with a mere 512MB memory since the laptop shows the installation as apparently successful when it is not in fact.
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Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is a platform independent, efficient, extensible, and open packaging and distribution format for virtual machines. On the VirtualGuru blog, an extensive set of resources on OVF are offered for those interested in learning more and/or adopting this cross-platform, vendor independent distribution framework, which the blog's author contends does not just define simple, portable virtual machines.
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Download the freely available Sun VirtualBox 3.0 and get symmetrical multi-processing (SMP) support, meaning support for guests that have multiple virtual CPUs (vCPUs), with up to 32 vCPUs in a single virtual machine (VM). This new release also allows users to deploy, start, stop, etc., VMs within a network or datacenter for ease in management. There are additional updates and added desktop support in this latest version, which Sun identifies as "significant".
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