Sun Microsystems

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Sun Microsystems is one of the key players in modern software and hardware virtualization.

Sun Microsystems: Background

Since 1982, Sun has brought together the world's brightest technical minds to solve the world's biggest technical problems. Our vision of "Everyone and everything participating on the network" means that when people are networked, they share, they interact, and solve problems.

Sun is best known for its excellent and ultra-reliable hardware. Sun's vision: the Network is the Computer, along with numerous innovations in hardware and software had helped Sun Microsystems maintain pioneering positions on the market for the past 25 years. Sun encourages open-source projects and actively leads and participates in many of them.

Sun virtualization solutions

This site has the following sections on Sun virtualization solutions to provide you with all the info and pointers you will need to get started:

Solaris xVM - x86/x64 virtualization technology based on Xen
Sun xVM VirtualBox - free desktop virtualization solution
Solaris Zones (Containers)
Solaris LDOMs