Re: [Hampshire] QEMU / KVM

Alan Pope wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:14:25PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:53:26 +0000, "Simon Capstick"
>> <simon@???> said:
>>> I've managed to get QEMU working on my rather slow VIA Esther (C7)
>>> 1200Mhz processor. Windows XP Pro does indeed work, but painfully
>>> slowly. Ideally I want to try out something quicker such as KVM or
>>> KQEMU. Do either work on a VIA CPU or do I need an Intel or AMD chip to
>>> do this?
>>>
>> Via cpu is intel compatible
>>
>
> VIA CPU doesn't have the VT support that would make KVM work well though.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>

It looks like my VIA C7 just doesn't have the oomph for kqemu to run
Windows XP fast enough to be useful. A faster Intel/AMD processor with
virtualisation extensions looks necessary for this. I guess I will be
powering up a noisy XP box occasionally instead.

Am I right in presuming I can't run KQEMU or KVM on a (noisy but remote)
server running the Xen hypervisor?

Simon