Background
The OpenxVM project was created in November, 2007 to involve the community in developing a pool of technologies that enable virtualization. The combined projects of OpenxVM enable the user to virtualize both desktop and server resources to gain an edge in performance and scalability. OpenxVM is still in it's early days as we share more information and get the community more involved. The code and formal projects will start to appear in mid-2008. Get more details about current OpenxVM projects and related efforts from the Projects page, or get involved today by joining the OpenxVM Community.
Project Summary
OpenxVM currently consists of two core projects (xVM Server and xVM VirtualBox), and several sub-projects (found on the community site). The core projects provide full featured products for both server and desktop virtualization, while the supporting projects provide foundational technologies that are used in the core projects as well as other unrelated products.
xVM Server is a commercial grade, bare-metal, type-1 hypervisior appliance. It is designed to be a highly efficient hypervisor with advanced CPU and memory handling capabilities capable of hosting multiple Solaris, Windows, and Linux guest images at a time. xVM Server is built on technology from the OpenSolaris community including contributions from the Xen open source community. The xVMServer.org community and website will launch in the Summer of 2008. Until then you can join the OpenxVM community to get involved in the groundwork today.
xVM VirtualBox is a feature rich, high performance, type-2 hypervisor product for desktop use. It runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), OpenSolaris and Solaris, and OpenBSD. Because of its high performance, ease of use, rich functionality, modular design, and status as the world's only open source desktop virtualization platform, xVM VirtualBox is quickly becoming the choice of developers and enterprises alike. xVM VirtualBox has a mature community, abundent documentation, and is available for download today. Visit the project site to access technical documents, user manuals, screen shots, FAQ's, and binary and source downloads. You will also find community forums and aliases, and instructions on how to contribute to the xVM VirualBox project.
Learn more about the technology for both projects from our Learn page.