Re: [Debconf-discuss] Virtualization?

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:42:07AM -0400, Iustin Pop wrote:
> 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?

Yes, when you pass a kernel to qemu, that requires qemu. ;-)

Ben.

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