The HA xVM agent is coming up for Open CLARC (cluster architecture) review. Neil has just sent the mail to the OHAC mailing list. HA is very important feature for any virtualization deployment and if you are interested in the design, you can attend the review meeting.
More details of the project are available at
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ha-xvm/
Its out, folks!
Solaris Cluster is now supported in LDoms Guest domains! This adds to the existing support for Solaris Cluster on I/O domains. Please refer to (SPARC) Support for Logical Domains (LDoms) Guest Domains as Cluster Nodes for the detailed explanation along with pictorial representation. If you see the future of data center in virtualization, then Solaris Cluster is the right choice for its widest range of technologies - Zones, LDoms, a xVM agent in the works etc.
Yet another feather in the cap of the team that is striving hard to bring you the best in High Availability software.
The HA xVM agent is available for download in the Open HA Cluster community! You can find the details at: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ha-xvm/.
To get you started quickly on the topic, a cheat sheet has also been provided! Now that is what I call user friendly! 
The design document has been updated to include the latest feedback as well.
This is an important milestone for the project. Happy Clustering!
Sun has agreed to purchase Innotek! If you were wondering why Sun is acquiring yet another company with a different virtualization technology when it already offers a very comprehensive portfolio in the form of LDOMs, xVM & Containers, just take a look at the markets they address! LDOMs is for our highly mutlithreaded, multicore Niagara line of processors, xVM for x86 based processors and Containers for OS based software virtualization! VirtualBox is targeted at desktops and doesn't offer all the functionality of a server grade virtualization technology like LDOMs or xVM.
But what it does offer is a very wide range of OS support and some really cool features for developers! Just click on the link and check out all the things that might interest you.
And the icing on the cake - it is Free and Open! Now how about that for talking the talk and walking the walk? 
I am surprised that the news didn't come out much earlier but better late than never. Oracle is officially entering the VM market with its own implementation of Xen. These days it is not possible to be in the OS market without having 2 things: 1. a decent virtualization road map 2. a neat set to management tools to manage the increasingly multi-vendor DC.
However, no vendor has the range of solutions that Sun does! LDOMS, xVM & Zones - all built in and proven technologies without having to pay a ransom for support!
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