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Sun announced early access 3 for xVM Server Appliance. It has certainly improved a lot as compared to EA 2. Many of the critical bugs have been fixed, many of them to improve the user experience. With this, Sun looks to be on schedule to release the product.

Survey for EA 2 provided some good feedback to Sun and xVM Server engineering team. Hope to hear more for the EA3.

xVM Server has been available in the Open Source to download.  When you download the xVM Server, the following set of document might go a long way helping with installation and configuration of xVM Server.

• Install Sun xVM Hypervisor and Use It to Configure Domains
• Part 1: Configure and Use ZFS-Hosted iSCSI Guest Storage Within the
  Sun xVM Hypervisor
• Part 2: Configure and Use ZFS-Hosted iSCSI Guest Storage Within the
  Sun xVM Hypervisor

Sun, today, announced an Early Access 1 of xVM Server to restricted customers. xVM Server will soon be available for download from http://www.xvmserver.org.

Meanwhile, an Open Source code bundle of xVM Server Early Access 1 can be downloaded from xvmserver.org. The bundle includes xVM Server's management layer and UI layer. There are two other major components  are already opensourced and can be downloaded from http://www.OpenSolaris.org.  These include:

1. OpenSolaris operating system which provides the hypervisor layer and a functioning dom0.
   
2. The second is the code that turns OpenSolaris into an appliance.

So stay tuned for the early access binaries and the source code.