Re: [CentOS-virt] Silly question about KVM

Scot P. Floess wrote:

I was wondering, if I do not have hardware that natively supports full virtualization...and I choose to use KVM,

You cannot use KVM on systems which do not support hardware virtualization

will my VMs be running in some form of chip emulation (and therefore terribly slow). To date, I've been using Xen and am very comfortable with it. I have some fears that later whenever Xen is dropped - I'll have to consider KVM.

Also, will Xen be carried forward should Xen be dropped from RHEL?

xen will be included in RHEL 5 and hence in Centos 5 for the whole life of the distro. However it might (actually I am pretty sure this will happen) no longer get enhancements after a given time (but only bugfixes)