Re: [Xen-users] xen on amd64 or intel

[aschiefer@xxxxxx]

hello,
maybe i was writing a bit to amd marketing like, excuse me for that. they  
want to integrate pacifica into all their "newly released" processor,  
which means the processors are not yet available. the link is  
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~104860,00.html,  
but the thing you are probably most interested in is(quote):
AMD?s I/O virtualization technology is expected to be supported by all
AMD processors in mid-2006, and is also anticipated to be implemented in
chipsets and core logic designed for AMD64-based platforms in 2006. The
AMD I/O virtualization technology specification download, together with
technology overviews and guidance to software developers who are
designing virtualization solutions for 64-bit technology, can be found
at http://developer.amd.com.

> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:53:07 +0100, Erik Tews <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 09.03.2006, 21:44 +0100 schrieb aschiefer@xxxxxx:
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > amd announced their "vanderpool" like technology called "pacifica" or
> > > "iommu" to be available in all their newly released processors from  
> > > this
> > > month on (see amd press releases). amd's tech has some potential
> > > advantages right now because the mmu is located within the cpu and so
> > > supports some advanced tricks very handy for vitualization(nested page
> > > tables etc.). on the other hand some reports say if you want to have  
> > > more
> > > virtual machines than actual processor cores intel's hyperthreading is  
> > > the
> > > way to go. intel also wants to release virtualization optimized  
> > > chipsets
> > > (i.e. northbridges that do the same tricks as amd's mmu).
> > Thats cool. How can I find out if a cpu from amd supports pacifica? I
> > thought it would take much longer for them to bring these cpus to the
> > market. Do you got an url from this press announcement?
> >
> > Does xen 3.0 support pacifica at the moment, and does it run stable?
> >
> >
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