President and COO of Sun Federal Bill Vass' Weblog

Thursday Dec 20, 2007

You need to take a look at these pictures from John Weeks cell phone (that's why they are low res). As you may have seen from some of our xVM announcements, you can now use the Sun xVM Server to host Windows, Linux, and other versions of Solaris while using Solaris as the control program in Dom0. Because Solaris is a trusted operating system, John was able to run a fully virtualized WinXP instance in a DomU with a customized xVM/Solaris configuration that allowed connectivity from a Solaris Trusted Extensions labeled zone (PUBLIC) running in Dom0.

What's unique about John's experiment is that it's all running on a single system loaded with Solaris Express CE build 79, no Citrix, VMWare, or SGD...Just Solaris and WinXP!