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I have a better "Why?": KVM is handy because you can run an unmodified guest. There are many reasons why somebody would like that, for example to run the lates
by ithkuil 13y ago
I have a better "Why?":
KVM is handy because you can run an unmodified guest. There are many reasons why somebody would like that, for example to run the latest greatest product somebody ships as an ISO (or VM) image.
If I understood correctly, KVM on POWER would allow to run unmodified OS guests built for the POWER architecture.
What's the use case? Where are the tons of pre existing but subtly different distributions you want to run together but have nobody supporting a couple of small fixes to let it run in a paravirtualized environment.
I'm genuinely curious about the usual ecosystem that people who run linux on IBM POWER have to cope with.
- wmf 13y agoThis is a case where Power differs from x86. Before KVM, PowerVM was mandatory on Power so every OS ran in a VM and these VMs were all paravirtualized. So "unmodified" Power OSes are already PV.
- ithkuil 13y agoHence I don't understand what's the point of KVM for the POWER platform. Could you shed some light?