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SubjectRe: [QUERY] lguest64
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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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