Re: KVM for Sparc?

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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:27:40 -0500

> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:31 -0500, Javier Guerra wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > It would be even more interesting to implement host support on the Sparc
> > > processors with hardware virtualization support.
> > 
> > Does Sparc processors also have 'virtualization support' as an extra
> > feature? i thought that 'non virtualizationability' was an
> > intel-specific limitation.  (come on... creating a privileged mode and
> > not trapping violations? who else would design like that?)
> 
> Trapping on privileged instructions is enough to get you virtualization
> functionality, but for good performance you really want additional
> hardware support to avoid those traps in the first place.

That's not really available on sparc.
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