While at JavaOne this year, I had the chance to talk with Sun’s Vijay Sarathy about VirtualBox, the open source virtualization engine Sun recently acquired. We talked about the general features in version 1.6, Sun’s plans for VirtualBox, and then went through a short demo of using VirtualBox to run Windows Vista and OpenSolaris on OS X.

I’ve split the videos into two parts, the overview and the demo:

Overview

Demo

See also Sun’s posts on the topic: a press release for 5 million downloads and VirtualBox 1.6…and an entry from heir AR blog.

Disclaimer: Sun sponsored these videos, is a client, and paid my T&E for JavaOne.

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During RedMonk’s Unconference at JavaOne this year, I had the change pull aside Mik Kersten and Ian Skerrett for a little conversation about what it’s like to be a commercial company (TaskTop) operating in the Eclipse ecosystem. A large part of Eclipse’s mission is to build out the open source foundation for a commercial ecosystem and I’m always curios how that works out – for example, I ask how projects draw the line between what’s part of Eclipse proper and what’s commercial. Also, I ask Ian how the Eclipse Equinox stuff has been going (though it’s only 6 weeks since announcing, as he points out): check out his post on p2 as well. Finally, we talk about OSGi in Glassfish.

Disclaimer: Eclipse is a client, as is Sun.