All of your questions answered
Some folks here at Sun have put together a white paper giving a high-level overview of Sun xVM and how it all fits together. If you're curious about the bigger picture for Sun xVM, and how Sun xVM Ops Center, Sun xVM Server, Sun xVM VDI, and Sun xVM VirtualBox fit together, it's a good read.
If you still have questions after looking at the whitepaper, you can also take a look at the newly expanded Sun Virtualization page. There are webinars for Sun xVM Ops Center, too.
And if that doesn't answer all of your questions, then let me know and I'll do my best to answer them.
That's a very useful white paper, but the part I still don't quite get is how VirtualBox virtual machines can be run on anything except VirtualBox. Say I'm a developer and I make a great OpenSolaris virtual machine on my Mac. Then how do I migrate that over to xVM Server? Looks like it's far from painless? Please tell me I'm wrong.
Posted by Kevin Hutchinson on August 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM MDT #
Both xVM VirtualBox and xVM Server can read/write VMDK virtual hard disk formats.
Posted by Steve Wilson on August 30, 2008 at 06:32 PM MDT #
Thanks for replying, Steve. So yes, Kevin, you are wrong. :)
That's about as painless as you can get, I think. It also means there's no lock-in.
Although the fact that both can use VMDK is sort of buried in the white paper. Perhaps we should make that clearer.
Posted by Owen Allen on September 01, 2008 at 03:26 AM MDT #
I AM GENERALLY INTRESTED IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME, I AM COMPILING BASIC INFORMATION FROM IT USERS FOR A-LEVEL COURSE WORK. WHAT INTRESTS YOU ABOUT IT AND TECHNOLOGY? AND HOW DO YOU USE IT IN EVERYDAY WORK FROM HOBBIES AND LEISURE?
Posted by ZAID MUNIR on November 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM MST #
Zaid,
Send me an email (owen.m.allen@sun.com) and I'll address your question.
Posted by Owen Allen on November 18, 2008 at 04:57 PM MST #