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Oracle® Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials
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Oracle® Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials

by Jeff Victor, Jeff Savit, Gary Combs, Simon Hayler, Bob Netherton
September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 26m
English
Pearson
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6. Oracle Solaris Containers

Operating system virtualization was virtually unknown in 2005 when Solaris 10 was released. That release of Solaris introduced Solaris Containers—also called Solaris Zones, now called Oracle Solaris Containers—making it the first fully integrated, production-ready implementation of OS virtualization. In response, several other implementations have been developed or are planned for other operating systems. Containers use a basic model similar to an earlier technology called Jails.

Chapter 1 provided a complete description of operating system virtualization (OSV). To summarize the key points here, OSV creates virtual OS instances, which are software environments in which applications run, isolated from each other ...

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