"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> wrote: > gives me full (AMD-based) hardware virtualization extensions for KVM. > does anyone have any reason to believe i might be misreading something > and making a mistake with that setup with respect to virtualization? > quite simply, i want a moderately-powered laptop that will support all > variations of virtualization i might want to play with.
Well, AFAIK, the "variations" of virtualization are, at this moment, the following: * basic hardware acceleration, ring -1 (VT-x / SVM) * I/O virtualization (VT-d / IOMMU) - a chipset, not CPU, feature!!! * guest page tables (EPT / RVI) I think that the Turion only provides SVM. I/O virtualization enables you to have direct control of a device from the guest: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM There are also some small features that bring performance enhancements (Intel FlexPriority). -- Mircea -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
