From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Robin KAY Message-ID: <3DE3FB5F.4A2702D7@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20021126204725.7190.qmail@mail.dirac.net>, Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VM for Windows/Linux? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:40:26 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 28c384a2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Doc Shipley wrote: > On 26 Nov 2002, Keith Nash wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of an inexpensive architecture that would virtualize > > > notably easier than x86? I don't think I've read of any attempts on > > > PPC, Sparc or MIPS, though someone must have tried... > > > > I remember reading that AMD's IA-64/Hammer/Opteron platform fixes some of the x86's virtualisation problems. Of course, you can't buy one yet. > > Well, the word here is that the Hammer series are "IA-64" *only* if > you want it to be. By jumper or switch on the mainboard, you'll be > able to choose x86 mode, or native RISC. I think you'll find that that was a mistype of AA-64 (i.e. x86-64), the Hammer/Opteron cores are not capable of executing Itanic instruction bundles. -- Wishing you good fortune, --Robin Kay-- (komadori)