Re: Virtualization Performance: Intel vs. AMD

Avi Kivity
2009-11-16T10:12:20Z

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.

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