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Gleb Reys December 19, 2008 Leave a Comment

VirtualBox 2.1.0

Sun xVM VirtualBox

Sun xVM VirtualBox

Another major release of Sun xVM VirtualBox, the 2.1.0 version, is now available for download.

From the list of major improvements, I'd like to highlight comment a few. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Sun Microsystems Tagged With: Sun Microsystems, virtualbox, xvm

Gleb Reys September 9, 2008 Leave a Comment

VirtualBox 2.0

Sun xVM VirtualBox

Sun xVM VirtualBox

Finally, I have the time to confirm one of the releases I've been waiting for: VirtualBox, a desktop virtualization by Sun Microsystems, turned 2.0 last week and you can download VirtualBox 2.0 right now!

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Filed Under: Sun Microsystems Tagged With: Sun Microsystems, virtualbox, xvm

Gleb Reys June 6, 2008 Leave a Comment

Just released: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.2

Virtual Box

Sun Microsystems has just released the maintenance update to VirtualBox product, so xVM VirtualBox 1.6.2 is available for download.

Looks like version 1.6.2 is well worth the upgrade, at least for 64-bit PCs. I'm also happy to see many of Linux and Solaris host-related fixes, the stability of VirtualBox has really improved since version 1.5.

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Gleb Reys May 6, 2008 4 Comments

Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6

Virtual Box

Last week, Sun Microsystems has released the next major update for its recently acquired VirtualBox product – Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.

What is Sun xVM VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is an absolutely free virtualization product for x86 platform. It supports both 32bit and 64bit architectures and can be used in both server and desktop virtualization.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Virtualization News Tagged With: Sun Microsystems, virtualbox, xvm

Gleb Reys February 13, 2008 2 Comments

VirtualBox To Join the xVM family (Sun acquires innotek)

VirtualBox Innotek Logo

Sun Microsystems has just announced the agreement to acquire innotek, a Germany-based provider of an open source desktop virtualization software called VirtualBox.

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

Gleb Reys January 3, 2008 2 Comments

Windows XP running inside Solaris xVM

Windows XP running inside Solaris xVM

Finally, I've got a chance to try the in action. As an experiment, I've installed Windows XP inside a fully virtualized xVM domU on an OpenSolaris build 79 – please click the thumbnail to see a full screenshot.

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Filed Under: Sun Microsystems Tagged With: solaris, Sun Microsystems, xvm

Gleb Reys December 19, 2007 Leave a Comment

Desktop and Server Virtualization with Sun xVM

Just a few weeks ago, Sun had introduced xVM – a family of virtualization solutions based on the technology of open source project called Xen.

Recent builds of OpenSolaris have full support for xVM, which means that you can activate it by booting Solaris in a special mode (it's a separate menu item in your Grub boot loader menu).

As always, Sun not only invests a lot of time into development of the project, but all the findings are open-sourced, and there's a hub for related projects: OpenXVM.

Filed Under: Sun Microsystems Tagged With: opensolaris, Sun Microsystems, virtualization, xen, xvm

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