[Fedora-xen] AMD Opteron Quad Core CPU Availability

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a good retail source of AMD Opteron CPUs when the 
> quad core versions become available? Also what would be a good 
> motherboard for these CPUs. I assume the quad core units (all versions 
> and price levels of them) support full virtualization.

I'm pretty sure Barcelona chips are unavailable except as engineering 
samples.  Last I heard availability was tentatively scheduled for August[1].

Barcelona has full virtualisation -- not sure about "all versions and 
price levels", but certainly any version which you'd want to buy should 
support it.  Should also supported nested page tables (boot the Xen 
hypervisor with hap=1 option to enable it).

Rich.

[1]http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~118193,00.html

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