Kernel VMI (Virtual Machine Interface) in F7/F8?

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Sun Oct 7 20:02:09 UTC 2007


On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:57:17 -0200
Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus at tmus.dk> wrote:

> Hi there...
> 
> It seems (noted in releasenotes) that F7 should have a VMI (Virtual 
> Machine Interface) enabled kernel by default, but from what I can
> find in the .config files it doesn't... Do I need a special kernel
> (i.e. only the XEN kernel has VMI or something) or was it lost in a
> kernel update or...?
> 

there's overhead with paravirt ops though ;)
at one point it was about 5% even in non-virtual environments... no
idea what it's at now.




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