Sun xVM
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Sun xVM was a product line from
History
Sun originally announced the xVM product family in October 2007. The brand at one time encompassed Sun xVM Server,
Products
Sun xVM hypervisor
The Sun xVM hypervisor was a component of
Sun xVM Server
Sun xVM Server was based on the xVM hypervisor project. Sun planned to support
Various features from Sun's
Instead of having its own disk image format, Sun xVM Server was intended to import/export
In early May 2009, the Xen community at OpenSolaris.org announced that separate xVM Server development would be discontinued as such, with the Xen/OpenSolaris project filling its role and the team that previously worked on xVM Server refocusing on Ops Center as the principal means of managing multiple hypervisors on multiple physical machines from a single point of control.[citation needed] Sun VP Steve Wilson said that xVM hypervisor support would not be part of commercial Solaris.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Sun's Announcement on Sun xVM hypervisor". Sun Microsystems. October 5, 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08.
- ^ "Sun Previews its Approach to Server Virtualization & Management". Sun Microsystems. October 5, 2007. Archived from the original on 2010-01-04. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ "OpenSolaris Xen Community". Sun Microsystems. Archived from the original on 2013-03-15. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
- ^ "VirtualBox and Sun xVM : Veritable Vijay". Archived from the original on 2015-11-16. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ^ Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter[dead link]
- ^ Alex Barrett (May 15, 2009). "RIP Sun xVM Server, Virtual Iron; long live Oracle VM?". TechTarget. Retrieved 2015-11-12.