Sun Microsystems X4200 M2 manual AMD VirtualizationTM Technology

For AMD PowerNow technology to work, both the operating system and server BIOS must be qualified to run AMD's PowerNow. Please see below for specific product support.

Solaris Support for PowerNow!

Solaris Engineering is currently aggressively working to add PowerNow support. Solaris is targeting a patch to add support at the end of this calendar year. PowerNow support is targeted for the Solaris 10 Update 4 release, planned to be released in Jan/Feb 2007.

For more information on AMD PowerNow, see:

http://enterprise.amd.com/us-en/Technology/PowerManagement/

AMD VirtualizationTM Technology

Application Application

Guest OSGuest OS

Virtual Virtual

Machine Machine

Hypervisor Host

OS

Virtualization

Instructions

Virtualization enables data centers to achieve higher levels of efficiency, utilization and flexibility by dividing a computer into several virtual machines or consolidating many systems onto one virtual machine.

Hardware-enabled AMD VirtualizationTM offers:

•Reduces complexity of virtualization software by adding instructions to the hardware

•Reduces overhead by selectively intercepting information destined for guest OS's

•Enables simpler implementation and support by allowing guest OS's to run unmodified.

•Improves security of virtual machines by increasing isolation of host and guest OS's.

•Improves efficiency of switching between hypervisor and guest OS's through tagged TLB memory architecture.

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