Laptops and hardware virtualization

[ccb-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org (Charles Bennett)]

Another choice bit on what Richard said a few days ago about instruction
privs and so on....

This paper discusses exactly *which* instructions required special
handling or modifications (vt,svm) in the instruction set:

http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/people/faculty/irvine/publications/2000/VMM-usenix00-0611.pdf


As for Hyper-V.  You have to have Server2008 64-bit to even be allowed
to look at it.  Guaranteed to wall itself off into the MS special
enterprise garden.

I'm KVM and some ugly launch scripts.

ccb, running kvm-amd.ko with QEMU on a $299 Compaq "staples special"
with no special doohickey in the BIOS....