Subscribe to this blog!Feb
13
If you would like to keep track of all the updates on this website, please subscribe to the Desktop Virtualization RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Sun Microsystems has just announced the agreement to acquire innotek, a Germany-based provider of an open source desktop virtualization software called VirtualBox.
Many of you are already familiar with both Sun xVM and VirtualBox, and I agree it does look like these are very similar and competing solutions, but there are a few differences which ensure that xVM and VirtualBox will only compliment each other in your environment:
- Sun xVM Server and VirtualBox are different types of hypervisors: Sun xVM is a bare-metal, kernel-level hypervisor, which runs directly on the hardware. VirtualBox hypervisor is an application that installs on top of an existing OS.
- Sun xVM Server is a datacentre-targeted solution for server virtualization and consolidation. VirtualBox is a lightweight desktop virtualization solution.
- Sun xVM Server suppors VM migration and predictive self-healing .VirtualBox doesn't have these features, but provides rapid deployment capabilities due to its tiny footprint.
[...] week, Sun Microsystems has released the next major update for its recently acquired VirtualBox product - Sun xVM VirtualBox [...]
[...] para assuntos virtuais, digo, de virtualização, descobri o por quê da Sun falar do VirtualBox. Eles compraram a Innotek. Aliás, o grande players do mercado hoje, correm atrás da VMWare comprando empresas loucamente [...]