On 09/20/2009 06:49 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> kvm will be removing the pvmmu support soon; and Xen is talking about >> running paravirtualized guests in a vmx/svm container where they don't >> need most of the hooks. >> >> > We have no plans to drop support for non-vmx/svm capable processors, let > alone require ept/npt. > Today, certainly; similarly kvm will host-side pvmmu support for a while to support live migration from older hosts. But in a few years it may make sense to run everything in a vmx/svm container even for Xen; we can then drop x86 pv_ops for good. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
