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Charon-HPA PAR is a hardware virtualization layer running under Linux on industry standard servers. It covers emulates a range of HP's historic HP3000 and HP9000 servers hardware and provides the ability for any existing HP3000 or HP9000 user of such systems to move to modern Intel-based server hardware.

Modern software operating systems contain a hardware abstraction layer (HAL). The HAL creates a software layer on top of the hardware to "virtualize" the functionality of the hardware components. The Charon-HPA PAR products are essentially HALs of complete historic HP3000 or HP9000 systemshardware, including their PCI-based I/O devices. They are precise models of HP3000 and HP9000 the legacy hardware, and contain modules which emulate the HP3000 and HP9000 PA-RISC legacy hardware CPUs, console subsystem, buses and I/O adapters, disks and tapes.

The installation of Charon-HPA PAR on a general purpose host platform provides an exact model of a working the historic HP3000 or HP9000 systemhardware. On this 'virtual' system you install your HP3000 or HP9000 legacy operating system and the associated applications, just as though you were using the original hardware. In most cases, no changes of the software are required. The Charon-HPA PAR emulated systems run the same binary code as the historic HP3000 and HP9000 code hardware and the same I/O drivers as the original hardware. This is illustrated in the following image:

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