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'''Sun xVM''' was a product line from Sun Microsystems that addressed virtualization technology on x86 platforms.<ref name=Oct2009annc>{{cite web |url = http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/sunxvmfaq |title = Sun's Announcement on Sun xVM hypervisor |date = October 5, 2007 |publisher = Sun Microsystems |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120908063730/http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/sunxvmfaq |archivedate = 2012-09-08 }}</ref> One component was discontinued before the Oracle acquisition of Sun; the remaining two continue under Oracle branding.

==History==

Sun originally announced the xVM product family in October 2007. The brand at one time encompassed ''Sun xVM Server'', ''Sun xVM Ops Center'', and ''Sun xVM VirtualBox'',<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2007-1005/feature/index.jsp |title = Sun Previews its Approach to Server Virtualization & Management |accessdate = 2007-12-09 |date = October 5, 2007 |publisher = Sun Microsystems |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100104081207/http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2007-1005/feature/index.jsp |archivedate = 2010-01-04 }}</ref> but the latter two products abandoned the "xVM" branding in late 2009, and are now called ''Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center'' and ''Oracle VM VirtualBox''.<ref name="Oct2009annc" />

==Products== ===Sun xVM hypervisor=== The ''Sun xVM hypervisor'' was a component of Solaris based on work that was being done in the OpenSolaris Xen community.<ref name="Oct2009annc" /> It was integrated into the OpenSolaris source base, and was available in OpenSolaris OS distributions, providing the standard features of a Xen-based hypervisor on x86-based systems.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/ |title = OpenSolaris Xen Community |accessdate = 2010-01-12 |publisher = Sun Microsystems |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130315100605/http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/ |archivedate = 2013-03-15 }}</ref>

===Sun xVM Server===

Sun xVM Server was based on the xVM hypervisor project. Sun planned to support Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Solaris as guest operating systems.

Various features from Sun's OpenSolaris OS underlay the guest OS as part of the hypervisor environment, including Predictive Self Healing, ZFS, DTrace, advanced network bandwidth management (from the OpenSolaris Crossbow project) as well as security enhancements.<ref name="blogs.sun.com">{{Cite web |url=https://blogs.oracle.com/vsarathy/entry/virtualbox_and_sun_xvm |title=VirtualBox and Sun xVM : Veritable Vijay |access-date=2015-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116121959/https://blogs.oracle.com/vsarathy/entry/virtualbox_and_sun_xvm |archive-date=2015-11-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Instead of having its own disk image format, Sun xVM Server was intended to import/export VMDK and VHD images to facilitate interoperation with VMware ESX Server and Microsoft's Hyper-V.<ref>[http://www.sun.com/software/products/xvm/xvm_whitepaper.pdf Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter]{{dead link|date=November 2015}}</ref>

In early May 2009, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090929055016/http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/ Xen community] at OpenSolaris.org announced that separate xVM Server development would be discontinued as such, with the Xen/OpenSolaris project filling its role and the team that previously worked on xVM Server refocusing on Ops Center as the principal means of managing multiple hypervisors on multiple physical machines from a single point of control.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} Sun VP Steve Wilson said that xVM hypervisor support would not be part of commercial Solaris.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/1356565/RIP-Sun-xVM-Server-Virtual-Iron-long-live-Oracle-VM |title = RIP Sun xVM Server, Virtual Iron; long live Oracle VM? |accessdate = 2015-11-12 |author = Alex Barrett |date = May 15, 2009 |work = TechTarget |quote = }}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Free and open-source software}}

* Oracle VM Server for x86 * Oracle VM Server for SPARC * Oracle VDI * Xen

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20151116154429/https://blogs.oracle.com/xvmblog/ Sun xVM blog] *[http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1107/820-3073.html Solaris Operating System Hardware Virtualization Product Architecture] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071030165340/http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/ Xen at OpenSolaris.org] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100714183241/http://wikis.sun.com/download/attachments/21725411/820-3089.pdf Understanding the Sun xVM Hypervisor Architecture] * [http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/xvmhvsrovw.jsp Sun XVM Hypervisor Overview] at BigAdmin

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