So long and thanks for all the fish ...
After 13 years at Sun, it's time to move on.
Sadly, today is my final day, and my last blog entry here (at least for a while).
If you're still looking to track me down, you might start at my personal website www.saulsbury.org. It's not much at the moment, but who knows what may happen in the future.
To the Sun colleagues I leave behind; farewell - I'll miss you!
cheers,
ash.
Posted at 04:39PM May 30, 2008 by ash in General |
New hypervisor API specification released
The API specification for Logical Domains (and the SPARC hypervisor) is now available for download at opensparc.net. It's a one-stop shop for your virtual OS programming needs.
I'm hoping we'll move the document to a more accessible location on the web-site, so just in case that happens and the link above ceases to work, a local copy is also available.
This document provides an overview of how the whole virtualization environment hangs together, followed by detailed descriptions of each of the interfaces available to an operating system running in a virtual machine ("Logical Domain"). This includes virtual devices such as disk and networking.
If you're serious about hacking a kernel for a sun4v UltraSPARC machine, be it Linux, FreeBSD or OpenSolaris, or even if your just curious you'll wan to take a look at this.
Posted at 11:35PM May 29, 2008 by ash in General |