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Gleb Reys February 13, 2008 2 Comments

VirtualBox To Join the xVM family (Sun acquires innotek)

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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.

See also:

  • Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire innotek
  • Download VirtualBox
  • Sun xVM section on Desktop Virtualization
  • innotek acquisition comments from Steve Wilson (Sun Microsystems)

Filed Under: Sun Microsystems Tagged With: desktop virtualization, innotek, Sun Microsystems, virtualbox, virtualization, xvm

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  1. Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 | Desktop Virtualization says:
    May 6, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    […] week, Sun Microsystems has released the next major update for its recently acquired VirtualBox product – Sun xVM VirtualBox […]

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    May 27, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    […] 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 […]

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