On 7/22/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Monsen wrote: [...] > > Dell tells me I bought a "Dual Core Pentium D, 930 Processor, 2X2MB > > Cache, 3.0GHz 800MHz Front Side Bus". It came as part of a Dell > > PowerEdge 830 package; the cheapest I could find that supported Intel > > VT. > > In terms of the VT lifetime, that's old. I think these are the first > processors to have featured VT. > > You can try downloading the latest kvm package, and do > > ./configure --with-patched-kernel > make -C user > user/kvmctl user/test/bootstrap user/test/vmexit.flat > > That will give you the cost (in cycles) of a guest<->host switch.
Ok, I'll give that a shot. I need to build a dev environment first. > (btw, you're running the distro kernel, right? I don't know how current > the kvm version there is) [...] Yes. $ uname -a Linux fuzzy.evapierce.local 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 15:37:31 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Thanks again for all the useful information. KVM rocks! -Adam -- Adam Monsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
