Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] SVM support

[Alexander Graf]

On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Alexey Eremenko wrote:

> Alexander Graf:
> Excuse me, but it is a bit unclear what you did.
>
> Several questions arise:
> a. Qemu now is able to emulate SVM on non-SVM old 32-bit processors ?
> -or-
> b. Qemu now is able to emulate SVM on SVM processors ?
> c. Qemu now is able to emulate SVM on VT processors ?
> d. How fast it works ? (theoretically, or benchmark results )
>
> Anyway it's nice to hear about this feature.
>
> --  
> -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"

Hi Alexey,

I implemented SVM in the qemu emulator (not kqemu, not kvm, but the  
real emulator), so you can use SVM in qemu on _any_ platform qemu  
runs on - even on PowerPC.

Basically concerning speed I did not do any benchmarks, but as far as  
I can tell the ratio real machine:kvm and qemu:kvm are about the  
same. So the virtual machine is about 5-10% slower compared to the  
emulated machine.

Hope I could clarify this,

Alexander Graf