Re: Plan9 VM for Windows/Linux?

Doc Shipley wrote:

> On 26 Nov 2002, Keith Nash wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know of an inexpensive architecture that would virtualize
> > > notably easier than x86?  I don't think I've read of any attempts on
> > > PPC, Sparc or MIPS, though someone must have tried...
> >
> > I remember reading that AMD's IA-64/Hammer/Opteron platform fixes some of 
> > the x86's virtualisation problems.  Of course, you can't buy one yet.
>
>   Well, the word here is that the Hammer series are "IA-64" *only* if
> you want it to be.  By jumper or switch on the mainboard, you'll be
> able to choose x86 mode, or native RISC.

I think you'll find that that was a mistype of AA-64 (i.e. x86-64), the 
Hammer/Opteron cores are not capable of executing Itanic instruction
bundles.

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Wishing you good fortune,
--Robin Kay-- (komadori)