Oracle VM Templates

Oracle Solaris 10 (x86 32-bit and 64-bit) and Oracle Solaris 11 (x86 32-bit and 64-bit)

For customers facing challenging business and technical requirements - such as lowering costs, simplifying system administration, and maintaining high service levels - the Oracle Solaris Operating System is the ideal cross-platform choice. It's innovative, built-in features deliver breakthrough virtualization and utilization, high availability, advanced security, and industry leading performance to meet these stringent requirements - all at a great price.

The Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Solaris can be used to rapidly provision new virtual machines running Oracle Solaris OS on x86 platforms.

• Available for Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11, the Oracle Solaris template supports both x86 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. 32-bit or 64-bit mode is selected at boot time by examining the hypervisor and the underlying hardware.
• The Solaris OS runs as a hardware virtual machine (HVM) which requires HVM support (Intel VT or AMD-V) on the underlying hardware platform. By default, Oracle Solaris 10 OS or Solaris 11 already has the required paravirtualized (PV) drivers installed as part of the OS.
• Oracle Solaris's advanced file system, ZFS, is chosen as the default root file system. 
• Review the README before you download.

Please review the following resources and you can post your questions to the Oracle VM discussion forum.

• Oracle VM Resources
  • Oracle VM Documentation
    
  • Oracle's Virtualization Blog
  • Oracle VM OTN Page 
    
• Solaris Resources
  
  • Oracle Solaris 10 Documentation
  • Oracle Solaris 11 Documentation
  • Oracle Solaris
  • Solaris HCL 
• Support
  • Oracle Premier Support for Systems
  • Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems 

Oracle Software Delivery Cloud Instructions for download of Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Solaris
Visit Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
Complete your registration information (Name, Company Name, Email Address and Country) and click on the download agreement
Select "Oracle VM Templates" from the "Select a Product Pack" pull-down menu
Select "Oracle Solaris on x86-64" from the "Platform" pull-down menu
Download and unzip the files and read the readme

For large downloads, or for functionality such as download resuming, the use of a download manager is highly recommended.