Solaris 11 Supports Two Forms Of VirtualizationOracle's first
update of Sun's Unix includes support for Oracle VM hypervisor
and Solaris Zones. Support for the Oracle VM hypervisor, derived
originally by Sun Microsystems from the Xen open source code,
has been added to Solaris. That means Solaris can host virtual
machines on either a Sparc server or on a standard Intel or AMD
x86 server under Solaris 11 for x86. Unix RISC servers are
typically more powerful than x86 servers and are still used for
large databases or other demanding applications that have high
transaction throughput. Support for Oracle VM gives Solaris
users both options. - The Critical Importance of High
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Expand Virtualization of Your IT Environment In addition,
Solaris includes a second virtualization opti