Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [QUERY] lguest64 | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:58:06 +0930 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: > On 07/19/2013 02:06 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried building lguest to play with it, but was disappointed to find >> this in the Kconfig: >> >> depends on X86_32 >> >> Why is this [1]? What is so hard about supporting 64-bit machines? I >> found a five-year old tree that claims to do lguest64 [2], but didn't >> investigate further. >> > > Please don't have us deal with another lguest unless there is a use case > for it. We want to reduce pvops and pvops users, not increase them... > > -hpa
Yes, the subset of x86-64 machines for which there isn't hardware virtualization support is pretty uninteresting.
Cheers, Rusty.
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