Solaris

Although I have a UNIX backgroud but after getting myself involved in VMWare and vsphere I am much amazed by the endless posibilites that it has to offer.
I was wondering, and I know there is something quiet similar out there offered by Sun Microsystems, but my specific question is if I can virtualize a solaris OS running on Sparc machine with a vconverter like ability.
Please enlighten me.

as far as i know , the answer is no?
VMware is not supported on SPARC

High ends servers have hardware domains and UltraSPARC T based servers have ldoms.
Of course, all Solaris machines (SPARC and x86 and x64) support zones (containers).

This depends abit on what your are looking for.
You can use Ldoms combined with jumpstart/JET and flar archive to achive something similar to Vconverter (convert a physical machine into a virtual one).
But as mentioned ealier, with Solaris 10, you also got the possebility of using zones as a way to seperate your applications.

If you can tell something more about that functions you are after, then it would be easier to tell you whats options you got on a Sparc/Solaris platform.

VirtualBox by Sun may help you on this. for both sparc and x86

hi Tirmazi:-
if you want my advice
to work in Sun Virtulization
read about zonning
it is wonderfull tool for Sun Virtulization

VirtualBox is x86 only, not suitable for SPARC.