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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Virtualization?



On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:10:51PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 14:30 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> qemu is still required, at least to boot the guest.

Even when passing the kernel (and initrd) directly to kvm/qemu, without
using a bootloader?

iustin

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