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[Xen-users] Re: Merge Xen (the hypervisor) into Linux
- To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
- From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:31:13 -0600
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- Delivery-date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:13:15 -0700
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> A lot of Xen legacies could be dropped: the crazy ring1 hack on
> 32-bit, the various wide interfaces to make pure-software
> virtualization limp along. All major CPUs shipped with hardware
> virtualization support in the past 2-3 years, so the availability of
> VMX and SVM can be taken for granted for such a project.
That's a pretty bold statement. I have five x86 machines in my house
currently being used, and none of them support VMX/SVM.
At least some Lenovo laptops disable VMX in the BIOS with no way to
enable it. Some of the Core2Duo chips don't support VMX at all.
I think Xen without paravirtualization would be a serious degradation of
usefulness.
Chris
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