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4.2.3 Oracle VM Support for Oracle Solaris
Table 4.1 describes the certification for Solaris as an x86 guest running on Oracle
VM on an Oracle VM-supported host.

Table 4.1 Support for Oracle Solaris as a Guest of Oracle VM

Oracle VM Version Guest OS Certified Tested PV/HVM

2.2 Solaris 10 10/09 Yes Yes

HVM with PV drivers

4.3 xVM Hypervisor

The xVM hypervisor is a free server virtualization platform for the OpenSolaris
operating system derived from the work of the Xen community. This hypervisor
contains features such as live migration, snapshots, shared storage support, and
V2V machine guest migration at no cost. The product is free to download and use.
To download the latest supported OpenSolaris release, which includes the xVM
hypervisor, visit http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.jsp .
For further information about the features and support of OpenSolaris, visit
http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/faq/ .
Oracle Solaris 10 distributions for x86, starting with Solaris 10 10/08 and
OpenSolaris 2008.11, offer integrated paravirtualization support for the xVM
hypervisor. Both Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris can also be run as an HVM guest.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS distributions (versions 5.2 and 5.3) are
known to work as both PV and HVM guests. Fedora 10, Ubuntu Linux 7.04, and
OpenSuSE 11.1 are known to work as HVM guests.
Table 4.2 details xVM hypervisor capabilities in OpenSolaris 2009.06 and the
version of Xen on which it is based.

Table 4.2 xVM Hypervisor Capabilities in OpenSolaris 2009.06

Hypervisor 32-/64-Bit dom0 32-/64-Bit Xen Version

64-bit 64-bit

3.1.4

4.3.1 xVM Hypervisor Key Features
xVM Hypervisor key features include the following:

Oracle Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, Windows, and Linux guests.

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V2V tools for importing VMware, Microsoft, Oracle VM VirtualBox (previ-
ously called Sun VirtualBox), and OVF file types via Oracle VM VirtualBox

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