Although I have a UNIX backgroud but after getting myself involved in VMWare and vsphere I am much amazed by the endless posibilites that it has to offer.
I was wondering, and I know there is something quiet similar out there offered by Sun Microsystems, but my specific question is if I can virtualize a solaris OS running on Sparc machine with a vconverter like ability.
Please enlighten me.
as far as i know , the answer is no?
VMware is not supported on SPARC
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High ends servers have hardware domains and UltraSPARC T based servers have ldoms.
Of course, all Solaris machines (SPARC and x86 and x64) support zones (containers).
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This depends abit on what your are looking for.
You can use Ldoms combined with jumpstart/JET and flar archive to achive something similar to Vconverter (convert a physical machine into a virtual one).
But as mentioned ealier, with Solaris 10, you also got the possebility of using zones as a way to seperate your applications.
If you can tell something more about that functions you are after, then it would be easier to tell you whats options you got on a Sparc/Solaris platform.
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VirtualBox by Sun may help you on this. for both sparc and x86
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hi Tirmazi:-
if you want my advice
to work in Sun Virtulization
read about zonning
it is wonderfull tool for Sun Virtulization
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VirtualBox is x86 only, not suitable for SPARC.
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