From: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>
To: "Govender, Sashan" <Sashan.Govender@au.unisys.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Opteron AMD-V support
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:47:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006032147.35712.iggy@theiggy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31EF79F027F00341803AA0E9D3EB846D176BA398DC@AUSYD-EXCH3.ap.uis.unisys.com>
On Thursday 03 June 2010 21:33:24 Govender, Sashan wrote:
> Hi
>
> We bumped into this issue with VMWare ESX 4 where it doesn't support
> hardware virtualization if the processor is an AMD Athlon/Opteron
> (http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9150). Does linux-kvm have a
> similar issue? More specifically will the the module kvm_amd.ko support
> AMD-V on an Opteron 2218?
Yes, KVM doesn't try to be too smart. If you have svm/vt, it runs. If you
don't, it falls back to tcg (qemu's normal/slow mode). The kvm-amd module will
load as long as the bios and the CPU both support and enable svm.
>
> Thanks
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-04 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-04 2:33 Opteron AMD-V support Govender, Sashan
2010-06-04 2:47 ` Brian Jackson [this message]
2010-06-04 13:47 ` Andre Przywara
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