From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Subject: Re: KVM for Sparc? Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:25:51 -0500 Message-ID: <1222118751.3967.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <48D7F33D.90007@codemonkey.ws> <1222114719.3967.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080922.132623.23838166.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: anthony@codemonkey.ws, blauwirbel@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, levon@movementarian.org To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080922.132623.23838166.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 13:26 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Hollis Blanchard > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:18:39 -0500 > > > It would be even more interesting to implement host support on the Sparc > > processors with hardware virtualization support. > > That's just a lot of protocol and userland work, rather than much > kernel stuff. > > To me it's less interesting, to be honest. Not sure what you mean. On IBM POWER servers, the hardware's virtualization support is only accessible to an IBM-developed hypervisor that is packaged with the system. If you're saying Sparc is in the same position, I agree that's not very interesting. On the other hand if those features are available to us, there would be some pretty interesting kernel work to port KVM to use that functionality. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center