Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-10 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2007-09-08, 14:59 GMT, Fernando Cassia wrote: > The above move by RedHat is a bit confusing... what can Xen do > that KVM cannot?. In other words, why should anyone even bother > with Xen with KVM around ??. I've read Xen is "more robust" > because it has a "one year lead" over KVM. But real

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-09 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> Point #1: >> >> I just wish someone had thought more about the name before selecting >> "KVM" ... because Sun has been using KVM (the K Virtual Machine) for >> its Java VM for embedded devices for some time. This just causes >> confusion on web se

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/9/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, don't rub it in. In any case the name can't be changed now, we > have to live with it. I just hope this is not one of those "we're not changing it, let THEM change it!" kind of arguments. :) Software names change all the time... remember

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-09 Thread Izik Eidus
Farkas Levente wrote: > On Vas, Szeptember 9, 2007 09:48, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> kvm is too new to have been included in RHEL 5. The enterprise distros >> have a long lead time where the technology is tested and fixed, they >> don't pick the latest kernel off kernel.org and ship it the next day

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-09 Thread Farkas Levente
On Vas, Szeptember 9, 2007 09:48, Avi Kivity wrote: > kvm is too new to have been included in RHEL 5. The enterprise distros > have a long lead time where the technology is tested and fixed, they > don't pick the latest kernel off kernel.org and ship it the next day. I > think RHEL 5 is based on

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > Point #1: > > I just wish someone had thought more about the name before selecting > "KVM" ... because Sun has been using KVM (the K Virtual Machine) for > its Java VM for embedded devices for some time. This just causes > confusion on web searches... > > The K Virtu

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 19:01 +0200, Luca wrote: > On 9/8/07, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Point #3: Xen vs KVM... I'm confused > > > > The above move by RedHat is a bit confusing... what can Xen do that KVM > > cannot?. In other words, why should anyone even bother with Xen with K

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Luca
On 9/8/07, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Point #3: Xen vs KVM... I'm confused > > The above move by RedHat is a bit confusing... what can Xen do that KVM > cannot?. In other words, why should anyone even bother with Xen with KVM > around ??. Xen is probably more mature, and has more

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/8/07, Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > kvm have support to amd virtualization extensions., you your cpu have > it, you should have no problem to use kvm. > > > That's great!!. The more I read about KVM the

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Izik Eidus
Fernando Cassia wrote: > Hi, > > This is my first message to the list, and I've just discovered KVM... > so please have patience with my (probably stupid and answered in some > FAQ already ;) questions... > > The first question that comes to mind is that the project description > mentions Intel'

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Luca
On 9/8/07, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is my first message to the list, and I've just discovered KVM... so > please have patience with my (probably stupid and answered in some FAQ > already ;) questions... Yep, it's in the FAQ: http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/FAQ#head-089ef

[kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi, This is my first message to the list, and I've just discovered KVM... so please have patience with my (probably stupid and answered in some FAQ already ;) questions... The first question that comes to mind is that the project description mentions Intel's virtualization features... I don't ha