On 24 July 2012 09:50, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/23/2012 08:58 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> The other related thing that >> might be surprising for x86-background people is that being >> able to present the guest with a virtual CPU that looks like >> a pre-virtualization CPU (eg the A9) isn't really an intended >> use case either. (The ARM world has much less of the 'everything >> must be fully backwards compatible for existing OSes' than x86...) > > I expect this to change once ARM servers become a reality. Yes, compatibility for guests migrating forwards from old virt-supporting host CPUs to new ones is important; it's only the pre-virt to post-virt that is less interesting. -- PMM -- 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
