Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:34:24 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt |
| |
* James Courtier-Dutton (James@superbug.demon.co.uk) wrote: > Ok, so I need to get a new CPU like the Intel Core Duo that has VT > features? I have an old Pentium 4 at the moment, without any VT features.
Depends on your goals. You can certainly give a paravirt Xen guest[1] physical hardware without any VT extentions. But that guest will be able to DMA anywhere in memory without VT-d, so if it's an untrusted guest you'd be taking a huge risk.
thanks, -chris
[1] Note: this is with the xenbits.xensource.com kernel, not with a kernel you'll get from kernel.org ATM. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |