From: Nolan <nolan@sigbus.net>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM on MIPS?
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:09:23 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20100327T020442-554@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100326195928.GA6472@farnsworth.org
Dale Farnsworth <dale <at> farnsworth.org> writes:
> After thinking about this some more, I think this means we can't run
> an unmodified guest. It should be possible to build the guest kernel
> to run in supervisor or user mode/address space.
>
> I'm new to MIPS, so I'm still looking for other challenges in virtualizing
> the instruction set.
You might want to read "Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable
Multiprocessors" by the folks at Stanford who eventually went on to write VMware.
They wrote a VMM for a MIPS ccNUMA. IIRC, they had to both do binary
translation, as well as relink Irix to live at an address in the user KSEG,
instead the kernel KSEG.
- nolan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-27 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 16:54 KVM on MIPS? Dale Farnsworth
2010-03-25 21:04 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 22:32 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-26 16:16 ` Dale Farnsworth
2010-03-26 19:59 ` Dale Farnsworth
2010-03-27 1:09 ` Nolan [this message]
2010-08-12 21:26 ` Hollis Blanchard
2010-08-13 4:24 ` Dale Farnsworth
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