[OpenIndiana-discuss] xVM in OpenIndiana?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 04:07:48AM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Michael Schuster wrote:
> > Ops Center isn't a replacement for xVM (the hypervisor), but a management tool.
> 
> Correct. But there hasn't been any confirmation from Oracle as to whether xVM (or any) source will be available after Solaris 11 releases outside the "Express" series. In the mean time, AFAIK nobody in OI/Illumos have taken ownership of that code to update it.
> 

Afaik Oracle killed XVM, and it's going to be removed from Solaris 11. 
(They just didn't have time to remove it yet from sol11 express).

Oracle also has OracleVM, which is also Xen based, but has Linux dom0 kernel instead.
It seems Oracle is focusing on OracleVM nowadays.

-- Pasi