Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:53:26AM +0000, Simon Capstick wrote:
>> I've managed to get QEMU working on my rather slow VIA Esther (C7)
>> 1200Mhz processor. Windows XP Pro does indeed work, but painfully
>> slowly. Ideally I want to try out something quicker such as KVM or
>> KQEMU. Do either work on a VIA CPU or do I need an Intel or AMD chip to
>> do this?
>
> kqemu is what you want.
>
> A quick comparison table, for the record:
>
> * kqemu runs on any CPU; KVM requires a CPU with the virtualisation
> extensions (VT for Intel, AMD-V for AMD chips)
>
> * kqemu runs with standard qemu; KVM needs its own qemu from the KVM
> project
>
> * kqemu can only accelerate userspace code; KVM will do both
> userspace and kernel code
>
> * both kqemu and KVM run as modules in the host kernel
>
> Hugo.
>
>
Thanks for clearing that one up Hugo :-)
Simon
