Sun calls its Xen-based hypervisor xVM

In a short post introducing upcoming Solaris 8 Branded Zone for Solaris Containers, Marc Hamilton, Vice President of Solaris Marketing, reveals how upcoming Sun hypervisor, based on Xen engine, will be called: xVM.

Of course Solaris Containers is just one of the many virtualization technologies from Sun that can help you reduce cost and complexity in your data center. Our CoolThreads servers support a hypervisor based virtualization technology called LDoms (Logical Domains) and we will soon introduce the Solaris x86 Virtual Machine (xVM) hypervisor for Solaris running on systems with x86 processors from Intel and AMD…

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