Supported Virtual Hardware

The different families of Charon-SSP virtual machines support a number of different hardware devices. The table below describes the device features and maximum number supported by the different Charon-SSP virtual machine families.

⁽¹⁾ Charon-SSP/4U+ has the same virtual hardware specification as Charon-SSP/4U, Charon-SSP/4V+ the same as Charon-SSP/4V. 4U+ and 4V+ are only supported on physical (baremetal) hardware with Intel VT‑x/EPT or AMD-v/NPT support running a Linux kernel supported by Stromasys. Please refer to the Charon-SSP User's guide for more details.
⁽²⁾ SPARC V9 is backward compatible. Hence, Charon-SSP/4U can also support V8 32-bit systems.
⁽³⁾ Each SCSI target ID can have up to 8 LUNs. Therefore, the overall number of SCSI devices can be larger than the number of target IDs. The exact number depends on the emulated hardware, the guest operating system and driver versions, and the SCSI devices used.
⁽⁴⁾ Charon-SSP/4V supports one LDom per instance. An LDom virtual disk image can be booted by Charon-SSP directly (system device configuration may have to be adjusted for differences in emulated hardware).
⁽⁵⁾ Before Charon-SSP version 5.6.1, the actual maximum values were different depending on guest OS: Solaris 10: 1TB, Solaris 11: 512GB.
⁽⁶⁾ CGSIX emulation is not supported for SunOS 4.x guest systems.
⁽⁷⁾ Guest systems starting with Solaris 10-U6 can use VDS and/or SCSI storage devices.
⁽⁸⁾ The BGE controller for Charon-SSP/4U is supported starting with versions 5.2.5 and 5.3.4.
⁽⁹⁾ Support for 128 emulated CPUs will be added to Charon-SSP/4V in version 5.5.4. Earlier versions of Charon-SSP/4V support 64 emulated CPUs.

Supported Guest Operating Systems

The Charon-SSP/4M virtual machines support the following guest operating system releases:

• SunOS 4.1.3 - 4.1.4
• Solaris 2.3 to Solaris 9
  
  

The Charon-SSP/4U(+) virtual machines support the following guest operating system releases:

• Solaris 2.5.1 to Solaris 10 
  
  

The Charon-SSP/4V(+) virtual machines support the following guest operating system releases:

• Solaris 10 (starting with update 4, 08/07) and Solaris 11.1 to Solaris 11.4
  
  

For Charon-SSP/4V(+), please note:

• For the emulated SPARC T4, supported Solaris 10 versions are:
  Oracle Solaris 10 1/13, Oracle Solaris 10 8/11, and Solaris 10 9/10, or Solaris 10 10/09 with Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 patch set.
• The emulated SPARC T4 model is a prerequisite for running Solaris 11.4 in the emulator.
• Solaris kernel zones are not supported.