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Sun Buys Open Source PC Virtualization Company

This is not Sun's first brush up against desktop virtualization
By Maureen O'Gara
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February 22, 2008 05:15 PM EST
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Although innotek's a quiet little thing, it's credited with four million downloads of the VirtualBox since January of 2007, some of them going to Fortune 500 companies and government customers.

Sun says it'll continue to give the widgetry away in hopes that developers using VirtualBox "guide their friends in the data center towards xVM Server as the preferred deployment engine. Beyond that," blogs Sun's xVM VP Steve Wilson, "I think there is a huge opportunity to link with Sun's other developer-related assets like NetBeans, Glassfish and (soon) MySQL. Imagine the virtual software appliances we can create using these assets, and developers will be able to start using them instantly, making it way easier to install and configure these things."

Sun's xVM family includes xVM Server and xVM OpsCenter. xVM Server is a bare-metal virtualization engine (in other words a hypervisor) with advanced features like live VM migration and dynamic self-healing, and can consolidate Windows, Linux and Solaris operating system instances.

OpsCenter is a unified management infrastructure for both physical and virtual assets in the data center.

Masland says it might be logical to think that OpsCenter will be extended to VirtualBox.

Sun has announced partnerships and endorsements for xVM with Microsoft, Red Hat, Intel, AMD, Symantec and Quest Software.

Sun is figuring on the innotek deal closing this quarter.

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