xVM VirtualBox 2.2: Faster Than Ever
xVM VirtualBox is the software in Sun's desktop-to-datacenter virtualization portfolio that allows you to virtualize your PCs. It supports any operating system as a guest OS, enabling you to develop or run applications on any platform -- that means you can run Microsoft Windows in a virtual machine on a Linux system or you can run Solaris OS and Windows and Apple applications on your MacBook.
Great New Features
xVM VirtualBox 2.2 gets new features that make it perform better than ever before, including:
- Import and export tools that let you put development environments into production on the desktop, server, or in a cloud
- Fastest ever hypervisor optimizations
- 3D graphics acceleration for Linux and Solaris applications using OpenGL
- Support for Apple's impending 64-bit platform, Snow Leopard
- 16Gb RAM for guest OSes
- Host-interface networking mode to make it easier to run server applications in virtual machines.
Get It Today
Single downloads of xVM VirtualBox for personal use are free of charge. Enterprise subscriptions for wider deployments are also available, and they start at $30 per user per year, including 24/7 premium support from Sun's technical team. In addition, Sun offers an OEM licensing program for partners that want to redistribute the xVM VirtualBox technology as part of their solution.
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Lab on a Laptop
In this demo, xVM VirtualBox is running on a Mac laptop and hosts several guest OSes, including OpenSolaris OS and Microsoft Windows, and you can see how a developer can check how an application renders in several different Web browsers with different OSes all from one system.
Supporting the OVF Standard
Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is a new industry standard that was developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standards organization. It enables virtual machines or appliances, like those that you can build with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.2, to be imported and exported between development and production environments. xVM VirtualBox's support of the new standard makes Sun's virtualization software interoperable with other virtualization technologies that also support OVF.
VirtualBox Live Show
Watch a live demo of Sun's desktop virtualization software and get a rundown of an xVM VirtualBox Q&A session in this webinar.
Desktop-to-Datacenter Virtualization
xVM VirtualBox isn't the only virtualization technology Sun offers -- check out also Sun's solutions and services for virtualizing and managing OSes, servers, storage, networking, and applications. The Sun xVM virtualization portfolio also includes xVM Ops Center and xVM Server. Sun also offers storage virtualization, server virtualization, and desktop infrastructure virtualization. And if you want help building your virtual environments, Sun's virtualization services can work with you to maximize the utilization of system resources and more easily monitor and manage virtualized systems.
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