Re: KVM paravirtualization on non-VMX/SVM CPUs?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> In January, Ingo Molnar announced "KVM paravirtualization for Linux"[1].
>
> The announcement mentions "support for the hardware cr3-cache feature of 
> Intel-VMX CPUs" and "i only tested this on 32-bit VMX".
>
> Because of this, I'm not sure how to understand it:
>
> 1) KVM paravirtualization means that it will be possible to use KVM on 
> non-VMX/SVM CPUs (much like Xen)?
>   

No.  That is possible (and kqemu demonstrates it can be done), but it is 
not implemented and to my knowledge no one is working on it.


> 2) KVM paravirtualization means paravirtualized drivers only (net, disk 
> etc.), but it will still run only on VMX/SVM-capable CPUs?
>
>
>   

Yes.  In addition, it enables platform-level optimization (like the cr3 
cache).


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