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Re: Re: VT-enabled cpu support roadmap



On Fri, Sep 08 2006 - 19:42, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:26:22PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > I have to triple-check (google give YES and NO answers) but it seems
> > my Dell D620 has VT-enabled (with a CoreDuo T2300).
> 
> Well, there are two versions of the CoreDuo T2300;  the T2300E doesn't
> support VT.  We should probably print the flag in dmesg but it will add
> silliness to an already overloaded identcpu.c...
> 

yeah, I read about the T2300E.
mince is:
cpu0: Intel Pentium M (Yonah) (686-class), 1664.54 MHz, id 0x6e8
cpu0: "Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz"

but as you said, that does not give a clue about this.

> > Does NetBSD/xen3 already supports virtualization via VT-enabled chip ?
> 
> I don't think so.  I've intended to try for a while, but haven't
> found the time yet.  I do know, however, that NetBSD doesn't run in
> a HVM domU (blame it on the qemu backend).
> 

well, my idea was NetBSD as dom0 and Windows as domU.
maybe some Linux and Solaris domU too from time to time.

> > If not, which place does this feature have in to xen3 TODO list ?
> 
> That depends if anyone is working on it.  You can always try and donate
> a VT (or SVM which is the AMD counterpart)-enabled system to Manuel with
> hope it could speed up the process :-)
> 

hehe... 'gotta ask my boss if I can give my working laptop to the NetBSD
project... the answer probably will be 2 letters long and begin with a N
:)

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