[Qemu-devel] Qemu and (Pacifica | Vanderpool)

2005-11-06 Thread Dave Feustel
Will Qemu be modified to take advantage of the hardware virtualization facilities incorporated in AMD's Pacifica and/or Intel's Vanderpool technogies? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and (Pacifica | Vanderpool)

2005-11-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
It really depends on Fabrice or another contributions from developers.. If Intel or AMD want to donate a machine with VanderPool/Pacificia to Fabrice, maybe he'll add it :) Hetz On 11/6/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Qemu be modified to take advantage of the hardware

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and (Pacifica | Vanderpool)

2005-11-06 Thread Mark Williamson
On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:19, Dave Feustel wrote: Will Qemu be modified to take advantage of the hardware virtualization facilities incorporated in AMD's Pacifica and/or Intel's Vanderpool technogies? qemu is an emulator, not a virtualizer, so these extensions don't really help.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and (Pacifica | Vanderpool)

2005-11-06 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 06 November 2005 10:33, Paul Brook wrote: On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:19, Dave Feustel wrote: Will Qemu be modified to take advantage of the hardware virtualization facilities incorporated in AMD's Pacifica and/or Intel's Vanderpool technogies? qemu is an emulator, not a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and (Pacifica | Vanderpool)

2005-11-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
Paul Brook wrote: On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:19, Dave Feustel wrote: Will Qemu be modified to take advantage of the hardware virtualization facilities incorporated in AMD's Pacifica and/or Intel's Vanderpool technogies? qemu is an emulator, not a virtualizer, so these extensions

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and (Pacifica | Vanderpool)

2005-11-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
Mark Williamson wrote: qemu is an emulator, not a virtualizer, so these extensions don't really help. They could be leveraged by kqemu one day... /me thinks we'll see a rash of Linux kernel hypervisor modules when VTX / SVM hardware is available. Indeed. I've already started my own

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and (Pacifica | Vanderpool)

2005-11-06 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:57:37PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: qemu is an emulator, not a virtualizer, so these extensions don't really help. Not quite. qemu is technically a JIT. kqemu/qvm86 are virtualizers. Bochs is an actual emulator. VT/SVM won't help the JIT part of

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and (Pacifica | Vanderpool)

2005-11-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
Jim C. Brown wrote: VT/SVM will definitely improve the performance of kqemu/qvm86. VT/SVM won't actually help them that much in the current case, assuming that my understanding is correct. They can only make the userland bits a little faster, and kqemu/qvm86 don't support running kernel