disk partitioning for multiOS machine

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Aug 19 10:16:36 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:09:29PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> I.e., is the plan to make KVM not suck on machines that do not have
> Vanderpool/Pacifica, or are those simply out of luck with xen gone?

KVM doesn't work at all unless you have these extensions.  However you
can still happen to run the /usr/bin/qemu-kvm on these machines - it's
just that it falls back to using QEMU (ie. pure software)
virtualization.

All new Intel & AMD processors support this anyway.  The situation is
similar to 3D accelerated graphics cards circa 1996 -- not everyone's
got one now, but within a few years even your mobile phone will have
it.  (Or something like that anyway :-)

Rich.

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