Charon-PAR is a hardware virtualization layer running under Linux on industry standard servers. It was developed specifically for users of legacy PA-RISC hardware systems. It emulates a range of historic PA-RISC hardware systems and allows existing users of such systems to move to modern Intel-based server hardware. The following designations differentiate between the various emulated hardware families: • Charon-PAR/PA3: emulates legacy PA-RISC systems for running MPE/iX • Charon-PAR/PA9-64: emulates legacy 64-bit PA-RISC systems for running HP-UX • Charon-PAR/PA9-32: emulates legacy 32-bit PA-RISC systems for running HP-UX Guest operating system support of the 64-bit models: • HP-UX 11v1 (11.11), 11v2 (11.23), and – rp34xx and rp44xx only – 11v3 (11.31) • In addition, emulated systems configured with 360 and 440 MHz CPUs can also run HP-UX 11.00 (e.g., rp2400-1-360, rp2400-1-440, rp7400-1-440) Guest operating system support of the 32-bit models: • Model 720: HP-UX 9.05, 9.07, 10.20, and 11.00 • Model B132L: HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11v1 (11.11) Charon-PAR does not emulate graphics hardware, but many graphics applications can run using an X-Server. You can migrate your HP-UX server by building an emulated HP-UX from an Ignite archive image of your original server. Charon-PAR Licensing supports use of a Stromasys VE (Virtual Environment) License server for serving the Charon-PAR license. The license server can be shared with other products such as Charon-SSP. Customers must check their licensing status for the Operating System and third-party software and confirm they can transfer their original license to a system running in an emulator.