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From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, MaoXiaoyun <tinnycloud@hotmail.com>
Cc: xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: RE: A simple question of CPU emulation in Xen
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 10:39:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8a2a8db-bd03-4a5b-8ea2-204631dc3c0f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110513155110.56ca976c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

> From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] A simple question of CPU emulation in Xen
> 
> On Fri, 13 May 2011 22:41:44 +0800
> MaoXiaoyun <tinnycloud@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi :
> >
> >      I have a simple question on CPU emulation in Xen.
> >
> >     Currently, inside guest, we can see that the CPU information
> incluing types and frequency is exactly
> > same as physical CPU. Is it possible for Xen(or qemu) to emulate a
> different type of CPU. That is inside
> > guest, we see a different CPU types?
> 
> Qemu supports a huge range of CPU and platform emulations,
> www.qemu.org.
> Most of this falls outside of Xen as Qemu doesn't need or benefit from
> Xen or KVM when doing cross cpu emulation.

Also see "MagiXen: Combining Binary Translation and Virtualization"
here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-77.html 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-13 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <COL0-MC1-F16ijYRq7A00088f57@col0-mc1-f16.Col0.hotmail.com>
2011-05-13 14:41 ` A simple question of CPU emulation in Xen MaoXiaoyun
2011-05-13 14:51   ` Alan Cox
2011-05-13 17:39     ` Dan Magenheimer [this message]
2011-05-13 23:41   ` James Harper
2011-05-15 16:48     ` hotmaim
2011-05-16  1:46       ` James Harper
2011-05-16  2:11         ` MaoXiaoyun
2011-05-16  8:04         ` Ian Campbell
2011-05-19  2:15           ` MaoXiaoyun
2011-05-19  6:21             ` Ian Campbell

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