Oracle Solaris Virtualization Features

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The following table provides a brief description of the various virtualization features that are supported in Oracle Solaris 11. All of these features are also supported in Oracle Solaris 10.

Table 10-1 Virtualization Features Supported in Oracle Solaris 11

Oracle Solaris 11 Feature	Description	Oracle Solaris 10 Support	For More Information
Oracle Solaris Resource Manager product components (also referred to as resource management)	Features that enable you to control how applications use available system resources	Supported	Administering Resource Management in Oracle Solaris 11.2
Oracle VM Server for SPARC	Hypervisor-based virtualization for SPARC servers	Supported	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/vm-sparc-194287.html
Oracle VM Server for x86 (Xen)	Hypervisor-based virtualization for x86 based servers	Supported	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/vm-096300.html
Oracle VM VirtualBox	Hosted workstation and server virtualization for x86 based systems	Supported	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html
Oracle Solaris Zones	A zone is a virtualized operating system environment created within a single instance of the Oracle Solaris operating system	Supported	Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones
Oracle VM Templates	The following types of Oracle Solaris VM templates a available: Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle VM Templates for SPARC, Oracle VM Templates for x86, and Oracle VM Templates for Oracle VM VirtualBox.	Supported in some Oracle Solaris 10 releases	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/virtual-machines-1355605.html

For an introduction to Oracle Solaris virtualization environments, see Introduction to Oracle Solaris 11.2 Virtualization Environments .