On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:39:36 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > and it occurs to me to ask whether anyone would want to get > *seriously* into virtualization without having machines with those > extensions. Depends - the Xen style paravirt stuff works well (for some definition of "well") without hardware support. > is it safe to say that, by now, most modern systems come with VT or > AMD-V support? and by "serious" virtualization, i don't mean someone > downloading and goofing around with it, i mean people who want to set > up virtual corporate servers or mission-critical stuff. My current experience with using virtual machines for testing tools such as debuggers that interact with the system at a low level leads me to suspect that mission-critical stuff should stay as far away as possible from virtual servers :-). If I look at summaries of test failures, there are some tests which consistently fail on virtual machines, yet never fail on real hardware. I have very deep suspicions about virtual machine reliability. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines