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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:34:09AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
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> Hi Manuel,
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> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >attached is a snapshot of a xentools30-vmx package, which should install=
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> >on top
> >of xentools30 the necessary bits for starting HVM guests. This is based =
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> >patches sent to me by Pierrick Brossin. It's good enough to start a linux
> >bootable CD up to the X graphical installer (I didn't try to install it=
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> >yet).
> >It needs a very recent current kernel.
> >
> >Known bugs
> >- as is, qemu-dm won't start. I renamed it and remplaced with a csh scri=
pt
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> I'm not following Xen as close as I'd like to, and as such your posting=
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> raised two questions for me that I was able to google. Maybe you can=20
> confirm my understanding:
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> 1) HVM =3D Hardware Virtual Machine, a Common Interface for VT-x/VT-i and
>          AMD SVM CPUs[1]

Correct.

> 2) Qemu-dm =3D Qemu[2] Device Model - a modified(?) Qemu that's used to
>              emulate instruction sets for real-mode support[3] - I guess
>              to run Xen inside Xen

No.  qemu is used as the back-end for HVM domains, providing it a
"hardware" to run on.  The part where qemu emulates a CPU is left out,
only the hardware environment is kept.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
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