Re: [Xen-devel] KXen preview now available

[Christian Limpach <christian.limpach@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Christian Limpach
> <christian.limpach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> One more question: is it true that this requires virtualization
>>> hardware (VT-X/Pacifica)? Or it can also do binary translation (using
>>> Qemu), so it can even work with very old hardware?
>>
>> It requires hardware virtualization and we've only added the vmx side
>> of that so far.
>
> So only Intel hardware is supported now?

Correct.  Should be fairly straightforward to add the svm code and
make corresponding changes, seems easier to do this once later rather
than having to change two places all the time...

> I see some SVM code in the source, but it is not activated yet?

Yeah, code which is in common files is there but the svm directory
corresponding to the vmx directory is missing.

    christian

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