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[MPC] Sun's Latest VirtualBox Release Enables Cross-Platform "Teleportation"

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Lord Xeb
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"Today's enterprises expect to deliver a 24/7, always available, computing service. The ability to teleport running virtual machines from one computer to another allows system administrators to perform essential maintenance with zero downtime of their IT systems. As a cross-platform hypervisor, VirtualBox allows customers to easily evaluate and deploy virtualized systems, using their existing x86 hardware, operating systems, and skillsets," said Jim McHugh, vice president Datacenter Software marketing at Sun.


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This is good news, as it seems like it was nearly impossible to move Virtual Machines to a similar platform before.
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VulcanDragon
How cross-platform are we talking here? Newer versions of VMWare already permit migration across different classes of x86 chips; not sure if you can go Intel-to-AMD or back yet, but you can definitely go across different Intel architectures with different instruction sets. (Or so the marketing says, we have kept our clusters homogenous so far.) Are they talking even more cross-platform than that? I don't see how that can be, the underlying chip still has to execute x86 code.
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ZHoob2004
I believe that it can go between any platform that supports an x86 instruction set, intel and amd alike.

the good part about this is that virtualbox is moving closer and closer to being able to compete with vmware and may eventually be a viable alternative.
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AMD+nVidia
Wait what??? You can't do this?!

I'm building a test server in VBox right now on my laptop with the intention of running it on a server!
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VulcanDragon
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Originally Posted by AMD+nVidia View Post
Wait what??? You can't do this?!

I'm building a test server in VBox right now on my laptop with the intention of running it on a server!
Not the same thing. VMs have pretty much always been able to be cold migrated from one chip to another, regardless of chip class. It's live migration (VMWare calls it "VMotion", sounds like Sun is calling it "teleporation") that's the topic here, which until recently has required all chips to be of the same x86 class.
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Originally Posted by VulcanDragon View Post
Not the same thing. VMs have pretty much always been able to be cold migrated from one chip to another, regardless of chip class. It's live migration (VMWare calls it "VMotion", sounds like Sun is calling it "teleporation") that's the topic here, which until recently has required all chips to be of the same x86 class.
Ohhhh I see! Phew.
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