OpenSolaris JeOS

Just enough operating system

JeOS is the abbreviation for Just Enough Operating System as it applies to a software appliance.JeOS refers to a customized operating system that fits the needs of a particular application...

, , is a reduced installation of the Sun-managed OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software...

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 quickly deploy OpenSolaris on a platform of your choice. You can tailor your deployment by adding packages from network-based package repositories and performing any other application-specific configuration changes.

Features

Pre-installed JeOS installations are provided by the OpenSolaris JeOS project for a variety of system virtualization platforms. Using these heavily reduced, text-based, headless server-oriented forms of the Sun-managed OpenSolaris distribution, developers and administrators can more easily produce application-tailored installations of OpenSolaris in virtual appliance, cloud and bare metal environments.

Small footprint alternative to the Live CD
Live CD
A live CD, live DVD, or live disc is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive...

-based installation
Pre-installed packages for common features used by virtual appliance
Virtual appliance
A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image designed to run on a virtualization platform ....

developers
Hardened out the box using Solaris security best practices demonstrated in the Immutable Service Containers (ISC) project.
Scriptable, SSH
Secure Shell
Secure Shell is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client...

-based control of initial boot process to enable appliance build automation

Available downloads

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
VirtualBox
Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products...
VMware Products
VMware
VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....

including Player and ESX/ESXi
Xen
Xen
Xen is a virtual-machine monitor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently....

based platforms such as Oracle VM
Oracle VM
Oracle VM is the server virtualization offering from Oracle Corporation. Oracle VM is based on the open-source Xen hypervisor technology, supports Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris guests and includes an integrated Web based management console. Oracle VM features fully tested and certified Oracle...

and Sun xVM
Sun xVM
Sun xVM is a product group from Sun Microsystems that addresses virtualization technology on x86 platforms.-History:Sun originally announced the xVM product family in October 2007 as a broader product line...
KVM
Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel. KVM supports native virtualization on processors with hardware virtualization extensions....

based platforms like desktop Linux Distributions or latest RedHat Hypervisor
QEMU
QEMU
QEMU is a processor emulator that relies on dynamic binary translation to achieve a reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPU architectures....

based platforms like desktop Linux Distributions
Microsoft Hyper-V or Microsoft Virtual PC
Microsoft Virtual PC
Windows Virtual PC is a virtualization program for Microsoft Windows. In July 2006 Microsoft released the Windows-hosted version as a free product...
Parallels Desktop
Parallels, Inc.
Parallels, Inc. is a privately held virtualization technology company with offices in the USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan, China, Russia and Ukraine. Parallels' US offices are in Renton, WA.The company has more than 700 employees as of 2010....

SPARC

Logical Domains (SPARC SUN4V)
Logical Domains
Logical Domains is the server virtualization and partitioning technology from Sun Microsystems released in April 2007. It has been re-branded as Oracle VM Server for SPARC since Oracle Corporation completed the acquisition of Sun in January 2010. Each domain is a full virtual machine with a...

Note: OpenSolaris OS JeOS Prototype VM images have both 32bit and 64bit architectures in single image.

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