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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
To: nate@root.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Intel VMX support?
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:37:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050609173734.GA23989@intel.com> (raw)

Nate Lawson wrote:
> Have you considered adding support for this instruction set?
> http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/19/76/197666_197666.pdf

It's not clear if you're trying to execute instructions such as VMREAD
inside qemu or use qemu's device models + VT-x (used to be called VMX)
for executing instructions.

If it's the latter, the code is in xen-unstable now. Can boot Linux,
FreeBSD, MSDOS etc.

We took a 0.6.1 snapshot and were able to run with very few modifications
to the "hw" directory.

There were some discussions on where qemu should run on xen-devel (Look
for the thread "Device model architecture")

The main changes we did were:

- accelerate i8254 by moving parts into the hypervisor
- We had some hacks to run without the BIOS, but now that we have BIOS
  support, these can go away.

In general, we do have a desire to keep the tools/ioemu/hw directory in
Xen insync with the upstream qemu development.

Comments/suggestions?

        -Arun

             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-09 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-09 17:37 Arun Sharma [this message]
2005-06-10 23:10 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Intel VMX support? Nate Lawson

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