[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtual Desktop

Geoff Nordli geoffn at gnaa.net
Thu Mar 17 17:21:46 UTC 2011


>On 16 March 2011 23:01, David <nonot100 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does OpenIndiana offer something analogous to the Oracle Virtual
>> Desktop Infrastructure solution?
>>
>> I'm not familiar with Oracle VDI, so perhaps this is a nonsensical
question.
>>
>> (I'm assuming it's something like a Terminal Server on steroids.)
>>
>> Thank you
>>

Hi David.

Oracle VDI is built on top of VirtualBox and includes various management
modules to dynamically provision virtual machines for people to use as
desktops.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization
  
VirtualBox does run on Solaris.  

http://www.virtualbox.org/ 

Geoff 





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