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Re: [Debconf-discuss] Virtualization?



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.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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