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Please note: For up-to-date information about supported features and guest OS versions refer to the section Virtual Hardware and Guest OS Supported by Charon-SSP. Unless otherwise mentioned, the terms Charon-SSP/4U and Charon-SSP/4V also include Charon-SSP/4U+ and Charon-SSP/4V+.

The image below shows the basic concept of migrating physical hardware to an emulator:

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The Charon-SSP virtual machines allow users of Sun and Oracle SPARC-based computers to replace their native hardware in a way that requires little or no change to the original system configuration. This means you can continue to run your applications and data without the need to switch or port to another platform. The Charon-SSP software runs on commodity, Intel 64-bit systems ensuring the continued protection of your investment.

The Plus versions and MMU pass-through:

• Charon-SSP/4U+

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• supports the same virtual SPARC platforms as Charon-SSP/4U

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• . Charon-SSP/4V+supports the same virtual SPARC platforms as Charon-SSP/4V.

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  However, the 4U+ and 4V+ versions take advantage of Intel’s VT‑x/EPT and AMD’s AMD-v/NPT hardware assisted virtualization technology in modern CPUs to offer better virtual CPU performance. Charon-SSP/4U+ and Charon-SSP/4V+ require CPUs with VT-x/EPT

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• or AMD

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• -v/NPT support and must be installed on a dedicated physical host system. Running these product

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• variants in a VM (e.g., on VMware) is not supported.

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• MMU pass-through (new in version 6.0.1) offers similar performance gains as Charon-SSP/4U+

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• and 4V+ on the non-plus versions Charon-SSP/4U and /4V. It does not require a physical Charon host system, that is, is supported in virtual environments.

• Both, the Plus versions and MMU pass-through

  • require the SSP+ license upgrade,

  • require a special kernel module for a supported kernel version.

• The two features are mutually exclusive.

• See the configuration sections in the Charon-SSP user's guide for more details.