[ILUG] To ubuntu or not to ubuntu

[Pádraig Brady]

Nick Murtagh wrote:
> Justin Mason wrote:
>> Doesn't KVM require hardware support?  I thought it did.  oh good if not!
> 
> Yes, the whole point of KVM is that it uses the hardware support
> built into recent AMD and Intel chips. As a result it required little
> kernel work (compared to Xen and similar approaches) and was quickly
> merged...

Hmm according to to my first link, KVM paravirt
works on any hardware, but according to the following
support for older hardware is still to be added:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7545#comment-207053

I'll find out for definite...

Pádraig.