Some of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4 features are available only when the fully qualified system firmware and Oracle Solaris OS are installed. Note that the control domain must already be running the fully qualified Oracle Solaris OS.
For information about the supported hardware, system firmware, and Oracle Solaris OS, see Chapter 1, System Requirements in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4 Installation Guide. For Fujitsu M10 servers, see the latest Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 Systems Product Notes.
For Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4, all new features are available even if the system does not run the fully qualified system firmware.
If a guest domain, an I/O domain, or a root domain does not run the fully qualified Oracle Solaris OS version, the following Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4 features are not available:
Verified boot
Trusted virtual networks
Increased number of LDC channels
Dynamic modification of device-specific properties on InfiniBand SR-IOV devices
linkprop=phys-state by default
Physical partition dynamic reconfiguration policy options for Fujitsu M10 servers requires at least the Oracle Solaris 11.3 OS