[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network – ready for mainstream?

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:13 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:26 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> ...
> >> Are you sure you're actually running KVM and not just qemu on that
> >> Pentium 4 system?

Of course you are correct, no kvm modules on the Pentium 4 machine. Just
qemu. Also, I checked the BIOS, and there are no settings anywhere in
there that I could find that have to do with virtualization. So it may
be the motherboard that doesn't support hardware virtualization?

I'll stand by my original statement that it depends on exactly what
hardware you have, at least in terms of the libvirtd-based
virtualization performance. And based on what I've read in this thread,
it is often difficult to tell in advance whether or not the hardware you
are getting will support it.

I haven't tried VirtualBox yet, I plan to do so when I get some time.
I'd also still like to know which vmware-any-any-update patch will work
with Fedora 11, and where to find it.

--Greg