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Re: [Xen-devel] KXen preview now available

To: Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] KXen preview now available
From: Christian Limpach <christian.limpach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:04:30 -0700
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One more question: is it true that this requires virtualization
> hardware (VT-X/Pacifica)? Or it can also do binary translation (using
> Qemu), so it can even work with very old hardware?

It requires hardware virtualization and we've only added the vmx side
of that so far.  No plans to add support for systems which don't have
hardware virtualization.

     christian

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