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Welcome to the OpenSolaris Xen community!

The Xen Project is an open-source hypervisor developed by the Xen team at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

This community is intended to focus specifically on the OpenSolaris xVM project which is based on the work of the Xen community. People interested in the Xen hypervisor should join the Xen mailing lists hosted by the Xen project.

OpenSolaris xVM Features, Bug Fixes and Known Issues in SXCE Builds

  • Support Solaris domU, Solaris dom0 on Xen
  • Support the Xen domain management model as expressed by the commands and utilities (xm, virt-install & virsh)
  • Support live migration and Xen's hotplugging capabilities (but not for HVM guests)
  • 3rd party domU guests from XenSource, Red Hat & Novell (SuSE)should work but minimally tested
  • HVM guest like Windows should work on capable hardware but will run slowly
  • Xen runs on x86/x64 systems only
  • HVM plumbing
  • PAE support
  • Savecore capability
  • Creation of Solaris domUs via Solaris install & jumpstart
  • Solaris Paravirtualized Network Driver
  • Basic save, restore and migration of HVM guests (new in SXCE build 85)
  • Improved I/O performance and scalability (new in SXCE build 85)

Click here for a list of xVM bugfixes and known issues in OpenSolaris SXCE builds.

Find Out More

OpenSolaris xVM is available in build 75 of OpenSolaris and Solaris Express: Community edition. See the downloads page for more information.

If you don't have OpenSolaris installed but want to see how the xVM project provides the ability to run multiple operating system instances (domains) on the same hardware simultaneously, check out the xVM screencast. Check out "Introduction to xVM for OpenSolaris Developers" for more information.

Once you've downloaded and started using xVM, you should head over to the Documentation page for more detailed information. You may also want to peruse the various xVM blogs available, which touch on a wide variety of subjects at many different levels.

Announcements

04 May 2008 Xen Summit Boston 2008
14 Jan 2008 Project virt-manager is now available on OpenSolaris
09 Oct 2007 Xen Summit, Fall 2007
19 Jul 2007 OpenSolaris on Xen update 2007-07-18
31 Mar 2007 Solaris Xen update

Blogs

raghuraman - Public APIs in Sun xVM Ops Center

Jan 8, 4:47 AM

Sun xVM Ops Center exposes certain public APIs. These public APIs allow external systems management solutions to integrate with Sun xVM Ops Center. These public APIs are the ideal integration points ...

Owen Allen - Community site planning

Jan 5, 4:10 PM

Hello. If you're returning from a break, I hope it went well. If not, well, that's where I've been recently. Jumping back into things: We're setting up a community site for Sun xVM Ops Center, and ...

Owen Allen - What is Sun xVM Ops Center?

Dec 11, 3:21 PM

Continuing on my last post, I figured I'd talk about Sun xVM Ops Center, and try to condense some information about what it does. Sun xVM Ops Center is a datacenter management tool. You install it ...

levon - OpenSolaris 2008.11 guest domain on a Linux dom0

Dec 11, 9:45 AM

My previous blog post described how to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on a Solaris dom0 under Xen. This also works on with a Linux dom0. However, since upstream is missing some of our dom0 fixes, it's ...

levon - OpenSolaris 2008.11 as a para-virtual Xen guest

Dec 10, 6:24 AM

As well obviously working with VirtualBox , OpenSolaris can also run as a guest domain under Xen. The installation CD ships with the paravirtual extensions so you can run it as a fully ...