Sun xvm VirtualBox Product Overview

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1 Sun xvm VirtualBox Product Overview Orgad Kimchi ISV-E Engineering Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1

2 Agenda Background Product Overview Key Features 2

3 Background In January 2007, innotek went GNU public with the release of VirtualBox under the GPLv2 (dual licensed) One of the most popular software package for running Windows programs on Linux desktops 5 million downloads 10,000 downloads every day In February 2008, Sun Microsystems Inc. acquired innotek 3

4 Sun xvm Product Family DEVELOP xvm VirtualBox Create virtualized applications Develop on your own preferred platform Test on many OSes on the single system TEST/STAGE DEPLOY xvm Server & xvm Ops Center xvm Server & xvm Ops Center Make efficient use of testing resources Test in different situations Reliably and securely run your applications Dynamically adapt your application to changing conditions 4

5 Sun xvm VirtualBox Guest Platforms Sun xvm VirtualBox Host Platforms x86 Hardware 5

6 Sun xvm VirtualBox GUI 6

7 VirtualBox Screenshot Solaris as Guest OS 7

8 Add Virtualization to Your Development Toolbox SandBox concept - Testing with a clean slate Training and Demos in the field Isolation potentially unsafe code, such as a virus or low-level data manipulator Preconfigured environment for development Multiple operating systems on a single host: > Solaris and Linux on your Windows desktop > Access to platform specific development tools 8

9 Key Features Broad Platform Support > Hosts: Windows, Solaris, Linux, OS X > Guests: Support for practically any x86 based OS Open APIs and Modular Design High Performance Rich Host/Guest integration Great hardware and device support VirtualBox RDP Server for remote access to vm's High Security Free and Open Source 9

10 Building Blocks Management VirtualBox Console GUI Command line interface Web Services API VirtualBox API layer language neutral programming interface Portability Layer cross platform abstraction layer Live migration Resource Monitor Scalability VirtualBox RDP Server VirtualBox Hypervisor Virtual Devices binary compatible interface, 3rd Party plug-in Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD Kernel Mode 10

11 High Performance Elegant and highly efficient architecture Powerful virtual devices > E1000 Gigabit Ethernet > 32 SATA Disks Very light, only 23 MB 11

12 Rich Host/Guest Integration Display Options > Supports all VESA standard resolutions/depths > Dynamically resizable Windows Desktops > Full Screen mode > Seamless Windows Shared Folders Mouse Integration Clock synchronization Shared Clipboard 12

13 Virtual Hardware and Devices Full ACPI Support > Guests can even see power status of hosts Virtual USB Controller > USB 1.1 and 2.0 > USB device filter to control which devices are seen > Remote USB when used in conjunction with VRDP Virtual NICs > Gigabit Ethernet Built-in iscsi > Connect virtual machine directly to iscsi target 13

14 VirtualBox RDP Server Guest Platforms Sun xvm VirtualBox RDP Server built into virtualization layer Remote access to guests Boot level access Remote USB over RDP x86 Hardware 14

15 Security Military-spec architecture > No interference between vm's > Zero data leakage between vm's 15

16 Free and Open Source Free as in Free Speech > Open Sourced under GPL > Source available at virtualbox.org > Strong community backing Free as in Free Beer > Binaries available for download > Free for Personal Use and Evaluation 16

17 Roadmap Sun xvm VirtualBox 1.7 > 64-bit Guests > PAE Large Memory Support > Host Support Mac OS X (Full) > Solaris Guest Additions Shared Folders > VMDK as a guest disk > Auto Update Q3 08 Sun xvm VirtualBox 2.0 > SMP Guest Support > Live Migration > VMDK native support > Seamless Windows 2 > Service Tags > SmartMemory Sharing, ballooning > Resource Management Q

18 Summary Virtualization is here to stay - growing trend. Ideal for developers who can now use this to setup multiple virtual machines to develop and test their multi-tier or cross-platforms applications. VirtualBox can help in the data center towards xvm Server as the preferred Virtualization platform. Sun improves it's Virtualization portfolio with VirtualBox acquisition. 18

19 Where to go for more information

20 VirtualBox on YouTube Seeing is believing! Check it out... 20

21 Sun xvm VirtualBox Product Overview Orgad Kimchi Sun Microsystems, Inc. 21