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Solaris Containers or Zones are lightweight virtual Solaris instances similar to a full Solaris OS instance but which share a single Solaris kernel. They are easy to provision, require only a small amount of incremental disk space, and can be rebooted as needed in seconds. Containers can also be cloned, detached, moved and reattached. In […]

The software specification for the UltraSPARC virtual machine environment, which contains the API specification for Logical Domains (LDoms) and the SPARC hypervisor, has been published.
Ashley Saulsbury, who produced this detailed document, describes it as “…an overview of how the whole virtualization environment hangs together, followed by detailed descriptions of each of the interfaces available to […]