From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVqDm-0000qU-QM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:39:58 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVqDl-0000pu-Cm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:39:58 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60226 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVqDl-0000pp-2Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:39:57 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:49270) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVqDk-0006wA-NG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:39:56 -0500 Received: from jamie by mail2.shareable.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LVqDf-0001WQ-Ib for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:39:51 +0000 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 16:39:51 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Cutting a new QEMU release Message-ID: <20090207163951.GA5668@shareable.org> References: <1233825194.6637.4.camel@ecrins.fosdick.home.net> <498AF6FC.90803@codemonkey.ws> <200902050936.49909.rickv@hobi.com> <200902051627.21972.paul@codesourcery.com> <498B380E.5090603@codemonkey.ws> <1233917676.6637.39.camel@ecrins.fosdick.home.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1233917676.6637.39.camel@ecrins.fosdick.home.net> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Steve Fosdick wrote: > Now, I can understand the developers of kvm only supporting the > virtualisation-enhanced CPUs because, looking to the future they will be > common. I suspect at the moment though there are plenty of people > running VMs on older hardware. In a couple of brief threads before, it was made fairly clear that kvm developers believe CPUs without the virtualisation feature are essentially obsolete, not just non-current. I sympathise with that view, now that my laptop has the feature :-) But it does seem harsh, a rather sudden cut-off point as it was only a few years ago that the virtualisation feature was not common, and it's still not available on all x86s. -- Jamie