On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:44:42PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Run a 32-bit VM. The 32-bit kernel does this right. > > Yes, even better. > >> I suspect it would also work fine in a Qemu user mode guest (is >> this supported by KVM?), in a ReactOS VM, or some other number of >> combinations. > > Right. > > So basically, there a lot of different virt scenarios which can all take > care of those use cases *without* encumbering some insane solutions on > 64-bit. > >> The real question is how many real users are actually affected. > > And if they are, virtualize them, for chrissake. It is time we finally > used virt for maybe one of its major use cases - virtualize old/obscure > hw. It should be pretty reliable by now. > > :-P > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. > --
My experience with kvm so far is that is slow and clunky. It may be OK for a server environment, but interactively it's difficult to use. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
