I'm looking to reproduce the results of Alexander Graf earlier this year when he said that he was able to get ESX to run a ReactOS guest all on top of KVM. More information on that can be found here: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2009/1/5/4600354/thread So far, I can only boot esx into service console mode, not regular mode or debug mode without a kernel panic (in ESX). I've enabled nesting, both in the module and in the kvm command on v86, using the -cpu phenom option as well. First question is about cpu type. I've been using some dual core AMD cpu's with svm enabled, but I'm wondering if I actually need a phenom cpu for all of this to work. I was under the impression that KVM/QEMU could emulate a different CPU if the features didn't exist. Second question is about the host OS. Are the nesting features in KVM only supported in an x86 OS? or should x86_64 work as well? I've tried each (in varying degrees), but if one implementation wouldn't work (like emulating a phenom, an x86_64 processor on an x86 host OS), I'd like to know so I can stay away from that. Also, I've been using Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04, but if there's some reason I should switch to a different distribution, I'd like to know that as well. Thanks for your help -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
