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 Now for your Ultra10, out of the box you can do Solaris Containers and resource management. To run Linux x86 or Windows, you would need something like QEMU or a SunPCI3 card which is an x86 PC on a PCI card. That card is no longer sold by Sun, but you can find them on Ebay cheap. QEMU is pure emulation in software, so it's not very fast. The price of T1000's are coming down, but are still not cheap enough for home use (around $2800 right now.. wish I could afford one). But if you could afford one, you could have multiple guest domains running different versions of Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris. You could even have some of them running Ubuntu Linux for SPARC. Beyond that, for home use an x86/x64 box would probably be more interesting and cheaper for you. You could load Solaris Express and use the xVM server component (Xen) to create VM's for running Linux, Windows, and of course Solaris. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2008 5:23:27 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox) > Is xVM an alias for VirtualBox, or are these two > similar Sun products? > > The website makes it difficult to understand what xVM > actually does. > There's so much cloudy abstract marketing, and after > being able to > navigate to some text for technical consumption, xVM > is being > presented as some kind of virtual /storage/, rather > than a virtual > machine. > > To get to my main question, what free tools can I use > to make an Ultra > 10 run Solaris 10 (or OpenSolaris) along with Linux? > Or Windows*? > * I don't really care to run Windows.. but the > marketing pages claimed > it is possible.. which implies that either x86 > w/BIOS are being > emulated (on top of the virtualization), or the > Windows target is > only available on x86 machines. > ______________________________________________ I think with Sparc CMT processors ( T1 & T2) , you can run LDOM's. There is also QEMU for Sparc, which you can try to compile yourself. This is the best shot, to the best of my knowledge, which is next to nothing, to run Linux and Windows emulations in Sparc. Now part of Sun's very ambitious xVM family, VirtualBox is a level 2 virturalization (i.e., no hypervisor virturalization) and share some code with qemu. It may eventually be able to run Linux/Windows emulations. But it may not. As you can see, I have already exhausted the little knowledge I have. You should re-post your question(s) at the xen forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=53 This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
