Farkas Levente wrote: > On Vas, Szeptember 9, 2007 09:48, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> kvm is too new to have been included in RHEL 5. The enterprise distros >> have a long lead time where the technology is tested and fixed, they >> don't pick the latest kernel off kernel.org and ship it the next day. I >> think RHEL 5 is based on 2.6.18, whereas kvm was first merged in 2.6.20 >> and gained guest smp support in 2.6.23. >> > > does this means if i compile the latest kvm as a module for rhel5's 2.6.18 > kernel it won't support guest smp? anyway the whole kernel and kvm > versioning and what is required for whicv version is not clear and should > have to be documented! it's a faq for all new kvm users! > > no, if you will compile the latest kvm as module to 2.6.18 you will have smp support. (it might be slower than in 2.6.23) >> Xen can also run virtual machines on older processors, but this is >> changing with kvm-lite. >> > > is there any info about kvm-lite? is there any docs where can i donwload > and test etc? > >
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