Tag Archive for 'iSCSI'

VirtualBox 3.1.4 released

Sun released VirtualBox 3.1.4.

VirtualBox is a x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use and is available under the GPL license.

The following items were fixed and/or added:

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OpenSolaris 2010.02 build 130 released

Sun Microsystems released OpenSolaris build 130.

The OpenSolaris development package repository http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ has been updated to reflect the changes up to and including snv_130 for both x86/x64 and SPARC platforms. This update includes fixes to the Caiman “Slim Install” and the Image Packaging System (IPS).

Users who wish to update their system to the development build can do so by setting their preferred publisher to the above URL and using the “image-update” facility provided by the pkg(1) command or by the “Update All” facility of the Package Manager GUI.

New packages in this repository update

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VirtualBox 3.1.2 released

Sun released VirtualBox 3.1.2.

VirtualBox is a x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use and is available under the GPL license.

The following items were fixed and/or added:

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Solaris 10 10/09 (update 8) released

Sun released 10/09 (update 8) for Solaris 10.

New features

  • System Administration Enhancements
    • Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Solaris OS
    • pcitool Utility
    • ZFS Features and Changes
      • ZFS and Flash installation support
      • Setting ZFS user and group quotas
      • Using ZFS ACL pass through inheritance for execute permission
      • Using cache devices in your ZFS storage pool
      • ZFS property enhancements (like properties to control the behavior of the ARC and the L2ARC
      • ZFS log device recovery
      • ZFS ACL Sets
    • nss_ldap shadowAccount Support
    • Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0 Patch Set 6
  • Installation Enhancements
    • Turbo-Charging SVR4 Packaging
  • System Resources Enhancements
    • Zones Parallel Patching
    • PVIO Drivers in Solaris 10 Guest Domains
  • Device Management Enhancements
    • iSCSI Initiator SMF Service
    • LSI 6180 Controller Support in Solaris MPxIO
  • System Performance Enhancements
    • Callout Subsystem Scalability
  • Driver Enhancements
    • Driver for LSI MPT 2.0-Compliant SAS2.0 Controllers
    • x86: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
    • x86: Interrupt Remapping Support for Intel Vt-d
    • x86: SATA Tape Devices Supported by the AHCI Driver
    • Sun StorageTek 6Gb/s SAS PCIe RAID HBA Driver
    • Intel 82599 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
    • Intel 82598 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
  • Freeware Enhancements
    • NTP Version 4.2.5
    • PostgreSQL 8.1.17, 8.2.13, and 8.3.7
    • Samba 3.0.35

Solaris 10 10/09 can be downloaded from this link.

VirtualBox 3.0.8 released

Sun has released VirtualBox 3.0.8.

VirtualBox is a x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use and is available under the GPL license.

Changelog

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