System News
SPARC
5 Jul 2012
#26797
What's up with LDoms: Part 1 - Introduction & Basic Concepts
Stefan Hinker Updates the Documentation on Oracle VM Server for SPARC

Stefan Hinker has launched a primer series updating the earlier LDoms Admin Guide and Tony Shoumack's 2007 "Beginner's Guide to LDoms" in which he explains how hypervisors running on x86 hardware differ from those embedded in SPARC firmware, which is to economize on the number of OS threads assigned to CPUs in order to concentrate on their principal function: maintaining isolation between guests. Hinker demonstrates the configuration of the control domain and the freeing up of considerable amounts of CPU and RAM for guest systems while also creating the necessary infrastructure that allows guests system interaction with the outside world.
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