On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:34:09AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote: > > Hi Manuel, > > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > >attached is a snapshot of a xentools30-vmx package, which should install > >on top > >of xentools30 the necessary bits for starting HVM guests. This is based on > >patches sent to me by Pierrick Brossin. It's good enough to start a linux > >bootable CD up to the X graphical installer (I didn't try to install it > >yet). > >It needs a very recent current kernel. > > > >Known bugs > >- as is, qemu-dm won't start. I renamed it and remplaced with a csh script > > I'm not following Xen as close as I'd like to, and as such your posting > raised two questions for me that I was able to google. Maybe you can > confirm my understanding: > > 1) HVM = Hardware Virtual Machine, a Common Interface for VT-x/VT-i and > AMD SVM CPUs[1] Correct. > 2) Qemu-dm = Qemu[2] Device Model - a modified(?) Qemu that's used to > emulate instruction sets for real-mode support[3] - I guess > to run Xen inside Xen No. qemu is used as the back-end for HVM domains, providing it a "hardware" to run on. The part where qemu emulates a CPU is left out, only the hardware environment is kept. -- Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost "You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks Owe it to yourself not to fail" Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.
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