Enabling Virtual Machine support

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Monday 28 September 2009 08:17:38 am Jerry Feldman wrote:
> needed because, in general, performance is more critical. I'm not sure
> if Virtualbox supports 64-bit guests, but KVM/QEMU and VMWare certainly
> do. Both KVM, QEMU, and Virtualbox are released via the GPL license. I'm
> not sure about Xen since Citrix bought it, but you need a Xen-enabled
> kernel to run Xen. 

Xen can also run 64-bit guests.  And Xen can also run systems without a 
Xen-enabled kernel using the virtualization instructions and the HVM 
(hardware virtual machine) loader.  I believe the HVM loader is based on 
QEMU.
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