[ale] SUN VM

[Jeff Lightner]

Sun does have a VM software.   I saw a presentation about it at AUUG a
few months back.  It runs on Solaris 10.   It was pretty snazzy - would
let you share base operating systems if you wanted between VMs so that
for Solaris installs all using the same version you only had to load
Solaris once then create customized partitions for the unique stuff
needed in each VM.  The plus was you could update the patches on that
base and automatically have all your VMs of the same type updated.  The
downside being if you didn't want to have all the VMs run the patches
you'd have to do a base install for each VM.

I recall at the time it would let you create Solaris and RH Linux VMs
but don't recall whether it did Windoze.  Even if it didn't then it may
by now.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
To: ale at ale.org
Freemyer
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:25 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] SUN VM

All,

I have a potential client that I've been talking to for a couple
years.  He never actually has any budget, just lots of plans.  I have
mentioned VMware type solutions and previously he had pretty flatly
said no the whole concept.

Anyway he just said he wants his new project to use Sun's VM (virtual
machine) software.

I'm pretty surprised because in the past he was always real tied into
Win2003 (etc.) for his servers so I would have thought VMware GLX
(iirc) would be the way to go.

Does anyone know if Sun has some kind of new VM software that will run
Windows virtual servers?

Thanks
Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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