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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: VIA Eden X4
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 07:24:22 -0700
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On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 12:50 +0530, Bandan Das wrote:
> "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey.kornilov@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > According to WikiPedia VIA claims x86 hardware assisted
> > virtualization
> > for VIA Eden X4 CPU.
> > Does anybody know if it is supported by Linux KVM?
> >=20
>=20
> I can't say for sure but my guess is that it should work since VIA
> implements
> VT-x like virtualization extensions, so KVM will find VMX capable
> hardware.

I don't think it's that straightforward, ISTR the vmx capability on
previous VIA processors being broken, for instance:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/712416

Seems like Avi had investigated and found something pretty broken in
the implementation, but my google-foo isn't able to find the thread. =C2=
=A0I
suspect nobody, maybe not even VIA, knows if it works on their latest
attempt. =C2=A0Thanks,

Alex