[PVE-User] Does KVM(in proxmox) supports 'UltraSPARC T2 Plus' hardware virtualization extensions?

[Luca Fornasari]

Hi Patryk,

PVE runs on top of Debian using a different Linux kernel (in short is the
one from Red Hat).
Now if I remember right Debian supports UltraSPARC so in theory you should
be able to
1) install Debian on the host
2) "upgrade" to PVE soon after

Anyway the question of the different kernel is still there ... so the short
answer is: you won't be able to install PVE on those two machines.
At least not without doing some (hard) extra work ...

Cheers,
Luca


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Patryk Benderz <Patryk.Benderz at esp.pl>wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>          I have opportunity to put my hands on two T5120 Sun's servers.
> Probably they contain 8-Core 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processor. I am
> just wondering, if I install KVM based guest, will it be able to use
> SPARC's hardware virtualization extensions?
>         My recent search [1][2] tells me that no, but I want to be sure. Or
> maybe I could use some other virtualization technology to get most out
> of UltraSPARC CPU? If I understand [3] correctly, QEMU should allow me
> to use UltraSPARC CPU?
>         Any constructive comments are welcome.
>
> [1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Processor_support
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines
> [3] http://www.greensocs.com/projects/QEMUSystemC
>
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