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Sun touts virtualization, OpenSolaris

02.11.2007 16:04

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in a speech at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on November 14 will unveil a Sun virtualization strategy, xVM, and new products to bridge the gap between virtualization and management, according to a Sun source.

Schwartz will talk about virtualization and how it will drive efficiencies across the enterprise. Sun xVM is intended to help customers better manage "virtualization sprawl." Also, industry partners will endorse Sun xVM and Sun will dedicate additional resources to virtualization.

Sun also has begun offering an OpenSolaris Developer Preview as part of its Project Indiana effort to release Solaris open source binaries to make Solaris more palatable to the Linux community. Sun had pledged to offer the preview in October. It is accessible here. The general release is expected in the first half of 2008; Sun previously has targeted March for the release.

The OpenSolaris Web site gave this description of the project: "The OpenSolaris Developer Preview is the first milestone of Project Indiana. It is a single CD combined live/install image: a core operating system, kernel, system libraries, a desktop environment and a package management system. It is not a final release and is intended for developers to try, test, and provide feedback."

OpenSolaris is about re-engineering OpenSolaris technology and making it more accessible to students, developers and startups.

The LiveCD of the preview only supports x86 now but SPARC support is coming soon, according to Sun. The CD includes a basic core operating system, the GNOME desktop environment and a new graphical installer, with the option to install an the operating system from the Live CD, Sun said. Following installation, additional packages can be downloaded by using the new Image Packaging System (IPS).

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