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NEW IN THIS RELEASE
The following major enhancements are included in this release:
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 kernel and drivers have been integrated in Vir-
tual Iron’s core virtualization architecture. Users have access to complete Novell
certification and global commercial support for servers, storage, and networking
hardware supported by Novell in SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server. This includes
systems from IBM, HP, Dell, Network Appliances, Cisco, and others.
• This release integrates the Xen 3.1 64-bit hypervisor, which provides support for
up to 128 GB of physical memory and per-guest virtual machine limits of 32 GB.
The new hypervisor also supports up to 8-way SMP per guest and leverages
ACPI to support dynamic hot-plugging of CPU, network, and storage running
into virtual machines.
• Release 4.0.0 adds support for several new 32- and 64-bit operating systems,
including Windows Vista, Windows 2000, and Red Hat Enterprise LINUX 3.
• This release includes Windows SMP support for virtual machines with up to
eight CPUs. This provides administrators the ability to virtualize more demand-
ing workloads, such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL server.
• LiveConvert
TM
physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual conversion capabilities
have been added in this release. LiveConvert
TM
allows the migration of data,
applications, and operating systems across physical, virtual, blade, and image-
based infrastructures.
• Release 4.0.0 contains changes and additions to the Virtualization Manager
interface. Included are new management wizards for creating and managing vir-
tual machines, and new graphing and reporting tools for measuring resource uti-
lization and performance, including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O.
WORKAROUND FOR ISSUE 502
VIRTUAL CONSOLE KEYBOARD HARD-WIRED TO US ENGLISH 101
You must use the US-English 101 keyboard in order to enter text for the Virtual
Console. Non-English keyboards do not map their keys properly.
Users of Japanese, German, and other non-English 101 keyboard types, can use
the following workaround to set the Virtual Console’s keyboard.
Workaround
Java 1.6 fixed a number of long standing key map/keyboard issues. Therefore, for
Virtual Iron’s virtual server console to work with non-English keyboards, it must be
run in a Java 1.6 runtime environment.
Following are instructions for installing Java 1.6 on a client that has a non-English
keyboard, and for configuring a guest OS and virtual server to use the correspond-
ing key map.
Install Java 1.6
Download the latest Java 1.6 from http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
and install it on the computer used to run the Virtualization Manager.
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