On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 02:41 +1000, Paul J R wrote: > Ahhh, now I think I understand. The way I had interpreted it was "KVM only > works on vanderpool/pacifica enabled chips" - which is true, technically > speaking. > > But qemu will still function without the enabled chips, but the kvm > components wont be available?
Thats exactly right. The changes that the KVM team did to QEMU allow for it to still select the QEMU cpu-emulator if need be. If the kernel module isnt available, or if you do not have permission to access it, or if you override the default with "-no-kvm" it will switch to the QEMU cpu-emulator and still boot fine. The KVM cpu-model is implemented as a driver module because the VT/SVM instructions are privileged and cannot be accessed directly from user-space applications. Regards, -Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
