On Dec 13, 2007, at 5:48 AM, Eric Thomas wrote: >> Just curious, but have you considered doing development and testing >> in >> a VMware environment? > > We use VMware for x86 systems, but as far as I know it doesn't run > on SPARC. Eric; I don't think VMware hosts SPARC environments, but running Solaris 10 x86 might be okay for testing purposes, but not for certification. On Solaris 10 SPARC, you do have the option of segmenting a SPARC server into different zones, and it might be possible to run older Solaris SPARC versions on one or more zones for testing/certification. This is an option you should discuss directly with Sun if it interests you.