Installing and Managing Oracle Solaris 11 Virtualization Features

The following table provides a brief description of virtualization features that are supported in Oracle Solaris 11.

Table 10-1 Oracle Solaris 11 Virtualization Features

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	Yes	Part I, Oracle Solaris Resource Management, in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Zones, and Resource Management
Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Sun Logical Domains)	Hypervisor-based virtualization for SPARC servers	Yes	Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.2 Administration Guide
Oracle VM Server 3.0 for x86 (Xen)	Hypervisor-based virtualization for x86 based servers	Yes	http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/oraclevm/index.html
Oracle VM VirtualBox	Hosted workstation and server virtualization for x86 based systems	Yes	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	Yes	Part II, Oracle Solaris Zones, in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Zones, and Resource Management

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