The latest beta version of the VirtualBox virtualization platform includes virtual SMP and graphics enhancements.

If there are any questions as to what Oracle has in store for Sun’s VirtualBox virtualization platform, that hasn’t stopped Sun’s development team from moving forward with a major new release of the product.

With the latest news coming out about Oracle’s “plans” for Virtual Iron’s future (or lack thereof), one has to wonder what Oracle has in mind for Sun Microsystems’ virtualization portfolio.  There are so many unknowns right now when it comes to Oracle’s virtualization strategy.  The company already developed its own Xen-based solution, Oracle Enterprise VM.  And they also announced the acquisition of Virtual Iron and that company’s Xen-based virtualization platform.  So then the big question is, of course, what will Oracle do with Sun’s xVM Server, Solaris Containers, and VirtualBox virtualization solutions?

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Sun Monday made available the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, which included for the first time Sun’s Crossbow technology for creating virtual network infrastructure on a single system.
The latest version of the open source operating system (available here) also includes new flash storage technology and integration with Microsoft’s CIFS file system, along with support for OpenSolaris as a control domain for virtual environments.

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