OpenSolaris JeOS

OpenSolaris JeOS ( ) is a reduced installation of the Sun-managed OpenSolaris distribution available as virtual machine (VM) images for a variety of system virtualization platforms. The images are as small as 139 MB and offer an alternative means to deploy OpenSolaris on a several platforms.
Features
Pre-installed JeOS installations are provided by the OpenSolaris JeOS project for a variety of system virtualization platforms. These forms of the Sun-managed OpenSolaris allow the production of application-tailored installations of OpenSolaris in virtual appliance, cloud and bare metal environments.
* Small footprint alternative to the Live CD-based installation
* Pre-installed packages for common features used by virtual appliance developers
* Hardened out the box using Solaris security best practices demonstrated in the Immutable Service Containers (ISC) project.
* Scriptable, SSH-based control of initial boot process to enable appliance build automation
Available downloads
[http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+jeos/200906+Prototype OpenSolaris 2009.06 JeOS Prototype downloads] are available in 10+ most popular Virtualization platforms as native and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) VM images for the following Virtualization platforms:
Intel/AMD x86 32bit and x86-64bit
* VirtualBox
* VMware Products including Player and ESX/ESXi
* Xen based platforms such as Oracle VM and Sun xVM
* KVM based platforms like desktop Linux Distributions or latest RedHat Hypervisor
* QEMU based platforms like desktop Linux Distributions
* Microsoft Hyper-V or Microsoft Virtual PC
* Parallels Desktop
SPARC
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Note: OpenSolaris OS JeOS Prototype VM images have both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures in single image.
 
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