The new Beta release of OpenSolaris Network Virtualization and Resource Control, often referred to by its project name "Crossbow," has now shipped to a world wide group of Beta customers.

You can also get involved in the activities. First, visit the OpenSolaris Crossbow project site "What's New" page, which summarizes the release. Then, if interested, you can download code for both x86 and SPARC-based systems at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/snapshots/.

Crossbow team members have blogged extensively about their activities on the project. You can find a good table of contents and links to these blogs at the team's blog site.

Wondering about how your system--and, by extension, your site--could use the network virtualization and resource control features provided by the Crossbow project? Then check out the use cases entry at Steffen Weiberle's blog, What the krowteN? .

Congratulations to the Crossbow team, who have worked long and hard on the release.