Sun Microsystems VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 user manual Version 3.0.0

12Change log

•Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328).

•Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365)

•Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)

•Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware accelera- tion to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML.

12.8 Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

•Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.4.2, “Processor” tab, page 48)

•Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.9, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9), page 72)

•Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

•Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)

•Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under cer- tain conditions

•Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE

•Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)

•VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)

•VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638)

•VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)

•VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels)

•VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)

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