Oracle VM for SPARC 2.2 released

Oracle VM for SPARC 2.2 (the product formerly known as Logical Domains) was released today. There are a some important changes in this new release:

• Support for PCIe Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) physical functions and virtual functions. Raghuram Kothakota's blog entry</A will give you deeper insight into this topic.</li>
• Support for performing named CPU core and memory block assignments.
• CPU whole-core allocation enhancement.
• Cross-CPU migration support. Jeff Savit wrote a great article to explain this feature. You can now live migrate to a different type of sun4v CPU. Before 2.2. you could just migrate to exactly the same type of processor.
• Virtual I/O support for Rx Dring mode.
• Bug fixes
</ul> You will find the release notes here.