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KVM paravirtualized drivers are automatically loaded and installed on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4.8, 5.3, and later. The KVM hypervisor uses the VirtIO com-
munity standard for paravirtualized drivers and provides drivers for Microsoft
Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, and Server 2008.
At the time of writing, Red Hat did not offer Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris paravir-
tualized drivers.
Table 4.8 summarizes the certification for Solaris as an x86 guest running on a
supported Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host.
Table 4.8
Support for Solaris as a Guest of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
Guest OS
Certified
Tested
5.4
Solaris 10 10/09
No
Yes
For people who want to virtualize Oracle Solaris releases on Sun platforms, a
plethora of options are available: Oracle Solaris Containers, Oracle VM Server for
x86, Oracle VM Server for SPARC (previously called Sun Logical Domains), Sun
Dynamic System Domains, Oracle VM VirtualBox, and xVM hypervisor. Oracle
Solaris runs very well as a guest of several x86 hypervisors. Its functionality, scal-
ability, and thousands of certified applications make it an excellent choice as a
virtual machine operating system.
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