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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com>,
	xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Virtualization + CPU w/crypto acceleration instructions
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:04:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F5EA76.4080805@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F5E64C.1050604@vmware.com>

Zachary Amsden wrote:
> VMware doesn't support VIA CPUs, and I think we would have compatibility 
> issues with these instructions.  In general, most hypervisors would need 
> to support decoding of the new instructions for complete emulation in 
> various fault and corner cases. 

Using a crypto instruction to update a pagetable would be... interesting ;)

    J

      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-13  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-12 19:35 Virtualization + CPU w/crypto acceleration instructions Molle Bestefich
2007-03-12 19:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-12 19:50 ` Kraska, Joe A (US SSA)
2007-03-12 23:46 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-13  0:04   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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