Re: [Debconf-discuss] Virtualization?

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Hi,

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> You are confused.  KVM relies on hardware virtualisation and its guests
> should be able to run any OS that the host can run natively.  Xen also
> now supports this as an alternative to paravirtualisation.  On older
> processors KVM cannot be used and Xen is limited to running
> paravirtualised guests.

Is it possible to run linux under KVM without relying on qemu code?
That is, are the virtio_* modules enough or is qemu still needed to
emulate some hardware for linux?

-Timo