Subject: Re: upgraded to 3.0.3, with hvm support
To: None <port-xen@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: port-xen
Date: 10/20/2006 19:17:36
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 06:21:19PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:09:55PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > I'm now persuaded that I need to update my desktop machine to one that
> > > supports HVM...  (Is there any way to tell from vendor literature if the
> > > CPU has the right features?)
> > 
> > For Intel it's
> > http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/default.aspx?familyID=1&culture=en-US
> > 
> > What you're looking for is  "VT"
> 
> Though the AMD stuff virtualizes a bit more, and performance is supposed
> to be somewhat better, right?
> 
> Which AMD CPUs have virtualization?  I am having some trouble figuring out.

Recent models of the Athlon 64, Opteron and Turion. They used to call it
"Pacifica" but call it "AMD-V" now. I think AMD has a marketing issue. Xen
apparently supports AMD Pacifica since 3.0.2.

-- 
Christian