Re: [Xen-devel] Via Nano X2 Support, cont'd?

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 19.05.12 at 22:00, Sam Mulvey <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Recently got a Via VE-900 board.   It has a via nano x2 chip on it, and 
> suggests that it has Intel-compatible virtualization extensions.   Has anyone 
> worked with this board yet?   I thought it would be nice to have a 
> lower-powered, nearly silent Xen machine sitting on my desk.

Looking around a little on their website, they don't seem to
publish proper specifications. Without that, and neither having
access to a respective system to actually test eventual changes,
it would be rather presumptuous to try to extend Xen to support
this. (As a side note, we're in feature freeze right now anyway,
so this could only be done for 4.3 anyway.)

I submitted a request for access to full documentation to them,
but based on past experience I'm not having much hope that any
response will show up (not to speak of a positive one).

> I've got it booting into Xen 4.1.2 and running PV dom0's, but I'm not able 
> to load any HVM domains.    I posted this question first on Xen-users, and I 
> was asked if I was able to get KVM or VirtualBox working-- I've tried KVM and 
> managed to get it booting into a Linux livecd and a Windows installer.

That can likely be taken as confirmation of above statement about
being (reasonably) compatible with an already existing HVM
implementation.

Jan


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