Oracle® Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials
by Jeff Victor, Jeff Savit, Gary Combs, Simon Hayler, Bob Netherton
Foreword
I’m no longer sure when I first became hooked. Was it when I overheard a casual conversation about running a “test” copy of MVS in parallel with the real copy of MVS on a new 390 mainframe? Or by the idea of Zarniwoop researching the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in an electronically synthesized copy of the entire universe he kept in his office? Whatever the cause, I’m still addicted to virtual machine technology.
Fooling a whole stack of software to run correctly on a software simulation of the platform it was designed to run on has been a recurring interest in my career. Poring through the history of VM/370 as an graduate student, absorbing James Gosling’s audacious idea of the Java VM, spending a few weeks building an experimental ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access