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Sun xVM VirtualBox Product Overview Orgad Kimchi ISV-E Engineering Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 Agenda • Background • Product Overview • Key Features Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 2 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 Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 3 Sun xVM Product Family DEVELOP TEST/STAGE DEPLOY xVM VirtualBox xVM Server & xVM Server & xVM Ops Center xVM Ops Center • Create virtualized applications • Make efficient use • Reliably and securely • Develop on your own of testing resources run your applications preferred platform • Test in different • Dynamically adapt • Test on many OSes situations your application to on the single system changing conditions Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 4 Sun xVM VirtualBox Guest Platforms Sun xVM VirtualBox Host Platforms x86 Hardware Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 5 Sun xVM VirtualBox GUI Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 6 VirtualBox Screenshot Solaris as Guest OS Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 7 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 Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 8 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 Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 9 Building Blocks Management VirtualBox Console GUI Command line interface Web Services API VirtualBox API layer language neutral programming interface Live migration Portability Resource Monitor VirtualBox RDP Server Virtual Layer Scalability Devices cross platform binary compatible interface, abstraction layer VirtualBox Hypervisor 3rd Party plug-in Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD Kernel Mode Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 10 High Performance • Elegant and highly efficient architecture • Powerful virtual devices > E1000 – Gigabit Ethernet > 32 SATA Disks • Very light, only 23 MB Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 11 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 Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 12 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 Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 13 VirtualBox RDP Server Guest Platforms Sun xVM VirtualBox • RDP Server built into virtualization layer • Remote access to guests • Boot level access x86 Hardware • Remote USB over RDP Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 14 Security • Military-spec architecture > No interference between vm's > Zero data leakage between vm's Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 15 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 Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 16 Roadmap Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.7 Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 > 64-bit Guests > SMP Guest Support > PAE Large Memory Support > Live Migration > Host Support > VMDK native support – Mac OS X (Full) > Seamless Windows 2 > Solaris Guest Additions > Service Tags – Shared Folders > SmartMemory > VMDK as a guest disk – Sharing, ballooning > Auto Update > Resource Management Q3 08 Q4 08 Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 17 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. Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 18 Where to go for more information • http://virtualbox.org • http://www.sun.com/virtualbox Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 19 VirtualBox on YouTube Seeing is believing! Check it out.... Sun Proprietary Information ; Partners Only 20 Sun xVM VirtualBox Product Overview Orgad Kimchi Sun Microsystems, Inc. 21.