From the project home page:
xVM Server is a data-center grade, bare-metal virtualization engine that provides hypervisor life-cycle management for servers. It is designed to b... More
From the project home page:
xVM Server is a data-center grade, bare-metal virtualization engine that provides hypervisor life-cycle management for servers. It is designed to be a cross-platform, high efficiency, open source hypervisor capable of hosting multiple guest operating systems (including Solaris, Windows, and Linux), with advanced CPU and memory handling capabilities. The server is being built using technology from the Xen open source project as well as Sun™ Logical Domains (LDOMS). xVM Server turns the computer into a dedicated virtualization Software Appliance with a top-of-the-line, easy-to-use interface you attach to over a standard https connection. The data model is exposed as public programming interfaces via WS-MAN allowing direct web-service access to the public APIs from any WS-MAN client.
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Hypervisors - bare-metal virtualization solutions that don't depend on an underlying operating system - used to be the high-priced spread of the virtualization world. You can still pay a pretty penny for hypervisor solutions from some vendors. But an announcement from Sun yesterday increases the pressure on purely-commercial solutions: Sun's own xVM Server is now open source.