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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Treutner <thomas@scripty.at>
Cc: Neil Aggarwal <neil@jammconsulting.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtualization Performance: Intel vs. AMD
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:12:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B012583.9060706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911151655.07947.thomas@scripty.at>

On 11/15/2009 05:55 PM, Thomas Treutner wrote:
> On Sunday 15 November 2009 14:05:52 Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>    
>> I prefer AMD CPUs, they give you a better bang for the buck.
>> Besides that, I don't think they would be any technical
>> differences, they are supposed to be completely compatible.
>> I have seen no evidence to the contrary.
>>      
> Isn't AMD the only one who has hardware support for nested virtualization? Or
> isn't that true any longer?

No, the Core i7 has ept which is the Intel equivalent.

> Anyways, I'm just curious, as this feature is
> primarily interesting for development, IMHO.
>    

No, it's primarily interesting for performance.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-16 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-15 12:22 Virtualization Performance: Intel vs. AMD Andreas Winkelbauer
2009-11-15 13:05 ` Neil Aggarwal
2009-11-15 15:55   ` Thomas Treutner
2009-11-16 10:12     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-11-17 10:23       ` Thomas Treutner
2009-11-15 15:56 ` Thomas Treutner
2009-11-15 17:33   ` Neil Aggarwal
2009-11-15 17:54     ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-11-15 17:59       ` Neil Aggarwal
2009-11-15 22:29       ` Gordan Bobic
2009-11-15 23:03         ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-11-15 23:50           ` Gordan Bobic
2009-11-16 12:02           ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-16 12:10         ` Avi Kivity

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