Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Sun xVM Virtual Box

(from sun's site:)
This week Sun formally launches xVM VirtualBox, new open source virtualization software for personal computers that lets developers easily work on cross-platform applications and virtualized server environments, from any platform they choose. Power users who require multiple platforms to do their work will also benefit from xVM VirtualBox.

How is xVM VirtualBox Different?

The biggest difference between xVM and its competitors is that it is a free and open source product that requires no registration or license keys and downloads and installs quickly. In addition, xVM VirtualBox can be run on a larger number of host operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Apple Macintosh, than any other virtual desktop product.

http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2008-0527/feature/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2008may27_xvm_read

Friday, May 23, 2008

how to move a zone on solaris

If you want to move a zone to another disk or partition, you can use the "move" option of zoneadm command.

first, you have to halt the zone.

# zoneadm -z zonename halt

now you can move it;

# zoneadm -z zonename move /new/partition/directory


http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2450/gcgnc?a=view