At some time, I thought I had gotten KVM working on one of my hosts - but was under the impression QEMU was used for emulation. It was some time ago...and was really me not knowing what I was doing...and tinkering. I could be completely wrong about this... On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > 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) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -- Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549 252-478-8087 (Home) 919-890-8117 (Work) Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros