For AMD PowerNow technology to work, both the operating system and server BIOS must be
qualified to run AMD's PowerNow. Please see below for specific product support.
Solaris Support for PowerNow!
Solaris Engineering is currently aggressively working to add PowerNow support. Solaris is targeting a
patch to add support at the end of this calendar year. PowerNow support is targeted for the Solaris 10
Update 4 release, planned to be released in Jan/Feb 2007.
For more information on AMD PowerNow, see:
http://enterprise.amd.com/us-en/Technology/PowerManagement/
AMD Virtualization
TM
Technology
Virtualization enables data centers to achieve higher levels of efficiency, utilization and flexibility by
dividing a computer into several virtual machines or consolidating many systems onto one virtual
machine.
Hardware-enabled AMD Virtualization
TM
offers:
• Reduces complexity of virtualization software by adding instructions to the hardware
• Reduces overhead by selectively intercepting information destined for guest OS's
• Enables simpler implementation and support by allowing guest OS's to run unmodified.
• Improves security of virtual machines by increasing isolation of host and guest OS's.
• Improves efficiency of switching between hypervisor and guest OS's through tagged TLB
memory architecture.
Just the Facts, August 2007 Sun Confidential: Internal and Sun Channel Partners Use Only 18
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Virtual
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Application
Virtual
Virtual
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Instructions
