Hi Octave,

Octave Orgeron wrote:
> I'm wrapping up my forth article on LDoms and wanted to list the OS's that 
> run within a guest domain. For Nevada, it looks like build 41 was the 
> earliest? Is this correct?
> 
> http://es.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006051601/
> 

Yes, LDoms support first was integrated into snv_41
(although I wouldn't recommend using it these days :-) A lot of features and
fixes have been integrated in the 40 builds since then)

Although there is not a 1:1 mapping between Nevada builds and the contents
of S10 Update Releases, here is a rough list of what is equivalent between
the two. Not all bugs that went into Nevada in a build listed below necessarily
made it to the listed S10 release.

snv_41: LDoms code integrated into OpenSolaris
snv_50: S10U3
snv_57: LDoms 1.0 (which was S10U3 plus some patches)
snv_67: S10U4

Personally, I'd strongly recommend not using any Nevada/OpenSolaris build
earlier than snv_70b (aka SXDE 9/07). Use snv_79 or greater if possible.

> I also tried out a few other OS's that support the sun4v platform and found 
> that Ubuntu Linux 7.10 works. It would appear that the other versions of 
> Linux for SPARC lack the proper LDoms support. I also found that the FreeBSD 
> port to sun4v is rather stale:(

LDoms support went into the 2.6.23 kernel (see http://www.fabbione.net/blog/ for
example). I'm not certain what other Linux distributions have this kernel
revision but I think Gentoo also supports LDoms.

-- Liam



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