I'm worried that some of these relatively new instructions might add more instructions that are troublesome to virtualize. So I'm inclined to using the arch with the smallest feature set, 386, rather than 686. Does that sound right?
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Alexey Eromenko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Ribhi Kamal <[email protected]> wrote: > > >From a Virtualbox point of view, would a Linux kernel be easier/faster > > to virtualize if it was targeted for a 386 CPU architecture, 486 or 686? > > Would it make a difference at all? > > I think 686 would be faster, as more instructions are available (MMX, > cmov, ...) > > -- > -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > -- -- Ribhi
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