Re: Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

[Izik Eidus <izike-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> On Vas, Szeptember 9, 2007 09:48, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> kvm is too new to have been included in RHEL 5.  The enterprise distros
>> have a long lead time where the technology is tested and fixed, they
>> don't pick the latest kernel off kernel.org and ship it the next day.  I
>> think RHEL 5 is based on 2.6.18, whereas kvm was first merged in 2.6.20
>> and gained guest smp support in 2.6.23.
>>     
>
> does this means if i compile the latest kvm as a module for rhel5's 2.6.18
> kernel it won't support guest smp? anyway the whole kernel and kvm
> versioning and what is required for whicv version is not clear and should
> have to be documented! it's a faq for all new kvm users!
>
>   
no, if you will compile the latest kvm as module to 2.6.18 you will have 
smp support.
(it might be slower than in 2.6.23)
>> Xen can also run virtual machines on older processors, but this is
>> changing with kvm-lite.
>>     
>
> is there any info about kvm-lite? is there any docs where can i donwload
> and test etc?
>
>   


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