From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Alpha target
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:25:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703291625.51752.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070329151209.GA6635@miranda.arrow>
On Thursday 29 March 2007 16:12, Stuart Brady wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:08:25PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > There do seem to be a few people who'd like Alpha emulation for QEMU.
> > > Obviously, you'd want to get dynamic translation working first. :-)
> > >
> > > OTOH, I'm now wondering which archs can support full virtualisation.
> >
> > Depends how you define "full virtualization". If you call kqemu full
> > virtualization then you can do that on pretty much any CPU.
>
> I meant "meeting Popek and Goldberg's virtualisation requirements".
In that case, I suspect most of them don't.
x86 certainly doesn't. Recent VT/SVM extensions bring it close, but there are
still problems.
PPC and SPARC also have hypervisor extensions, which suggests the conventional
instruction sets don't allow full virtualization.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-29 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-17 13:37 [Qemu-devel] Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0) Thomas Orgis
2007-03-18 4:45 ` Tony Nelson
2007-03-18 8:37 ` Thomas Orgis
2007-03-18 9:18 ` Nigel Horne
2007-03-22 19:46 ` [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: " Thomas Orgis
2007-03-22 20:13 ` Sunil Amitkumar Janki
2007-03-23 9:58 ` Thomas Orgis
2007-03-23 10:21 ` Sunil Amitkumar Janki
2007-03-23 15:45 ` Paul Brook
2007-03-23 20:11 ` Thomas Orgis
2007-03-24 12:32 ` Sunil Amitkumar Janki
2007-03-24 12:55 ` Julian Seward
2007-03-26 9:34 ` Thomas Orgis
2007-03-28 19:56 ` Rob Landley
2007-03-29 10:55 ` Thomas Orgis
2007-03-29 14:55 ` [Qemu-devel] QEMU Alpha target Stuart Brady
2007-03-29 15:08 ` Paul Brook
2007-03-29 15:12 ` Stuart Brady
2007-03-29 15:25 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2007-03-29 21:01 ` J. Mayer
2007-03-29 15:25 ` [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0) Sunil Amitkumar Janki
2007-03-29 16:08 ` Stuart Brady
2007-03-29 19:57 ` J. Mayer
2007-03-29 20:04 ` Brian Wheeler
2007-03-29 21:18 ` [Qemu-devel] QEMU Alpha target Stuart Brady
2007-03-29 21:31 ` J. Mayer
2007-03-29 21:57 ` Stuart Brady
2007-03-29 21:48 ` Thomas Orgis
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