[ILUG] To ubuntu or not to ubuntu

[Nick Murtagh]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Full virtualistion needs hardware support
> 
> no. what about [k]qemu?

Doh! You are right. I guess I mean "full virtualisation at near-native
speeds".


>> , paravirtualistion doesn't (as implemented in Xen).
> 
> so you're contradicting your last mail
> where you said KVM needs new hardware support?

Not at all, I said:

    "the whole point of KVM is that it uses the hardware support
     built into recent AMD and Intel chips"

which is true. Just because Ingo adds support for paravirualisation to 
KVM doesn't really change that. See:

     http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki

    "KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization
     solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization
     extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V)."


>> Summary: if you want to use an unmodified guest (eg Windows) KVM is the
>> only (Linux-kernel) game in town.
> 
> what about kqemu again?

Yes, you are right.