This software is a powerful virtualization engine that allows for bare-metal virtualization of servers in data-centers. It offers efficient hypervisor life-cycle management to ensure optimal operation.
xVM Server is a virtualization engine that provides hypervisor life-cycle management for servers. It is a high efficiency, open-source hypervisor with a cross-platform design capable of hosting multiple guest operating systems, including Solaris, Windows, and Linux, with advanced CPU and memory handling capabilities. Developed with basic hypervisor design principles and key capabilities, this software is perfect for developers.
One of the significant features of xVM Server is that it turns the computer into a dedicated virtualization Software Appliance with an easy-to-use interface that is accessible over a standard https connection. The data model is exposed as public programming interfaces via WS-MAN, allowing direct web-service access to public APIs from any WS-MAN client.
The xVM Server is built using technology from the Xen open-source project and Sun™ Logical Domains (LDOMS) to provide developers with a complete virtualization solution. The server is designed to support live migration of VM instances between servers, checkpoint/ restart and live migration, managed provisioning, grid operations, and special purpose kernels such as JVM, drivers, and file systems.
Developers can find more information about the xVM Server open source project and consuming the public APIs from the Technology page on Sun.com/xVM. Users can visit the same page for complete product FAQs, documentation, and download instructions.
The user interface served by xVM Server's embedded web server is under development but is coming along quickly. The UI is being developed using a new AJAX toolkit and is a sneak peek of what is expected to come. The most impressive thing about this interface is its ability to process on the client, reducing its trips to the server and providing near-instantaneous feedback on most actions.
One of the significant features of xVM Server is that it turns the computer into a dedicated virtualization Software Appliance with an easy-to-use interface that is accessible over a standard https connection. The data model is exposed as public programming interfaces via WS-MAN, allowing direct web-service access to public APIs from any WS-MAN client.
The xVM Server is built using technology from the Xen open-source project and Sun™ Logical Domains (LDOMS) to provide developers with a complete virtualization solution. The server is designed to support live migration of VM instances between servers, checkpoint/ restart and live migration, managed provisioning, grid operations, and special purpose kernels such as JVM, drivers, and file systems.
Developers can find more information about the xVM Server open source project and consuming the public APIs from the Technology page on Sun.com/xVM. Users can visit the same page for complete product FAQs, documentation, and download instructions.
The user interface served by xVM Server's embedded web server is under development but is coming along quickly. The UI is being developed using a new AJAX toolkit and is a sneak peek of what is expected to come. The most impressive thing about this interface is its ability to process on the client, reducing its trips to the server and providing near-instantaneous feedback on most actions.
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