[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS KVM on AMD Processor

[Suleyman Nazif Kutlu]

Thanks Josef, I could not find/hear any positive / negative feedback on
Internet about KVM AMD support on Illumos based OSes (OmniOS, SmartOS, etc)
neither.

So this is what I was afraid of. Now I will switch back to backup plan ZOL
on Ubuntu / Debian :(


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc at josefsipek.net>
wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 04:02:26PM +0200, Suleyman Nazif Kutlu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am brand new to OmniOS. Reading some documentation on Internet I found
> > out that on Illumos based OSes KVM is only supported on Intel processors.
> > Is this true for OmniOS as well?
> >
> > I am planning to use OmniOS on an AMD processor server with ZFS+KVM+Zones
> > as a virtualization host for some personal Web Servers, databases, Home
> > Fileserver, Multimedia Streaming, etc..
> >
> > I started with Ubuntu+KVM several years ago, then migrated to ESXi 5.x...
> > Now I want to use ZFS as well. This is main reason for me to start
> thinking
> > about Illumos based OSes.
> >
> > Although ZOL is available on Ubuntu, I believe, as many others on
> Internet,
> > ZFS on Illumos based OSes are more mature then ZOL.
> >
> > If this works on AMD processor, I will start migrations as soon as
> > possible...
>
> Unless OmniTI managed to get that working (I haven't heard about anything
> like that), the answer is still "no, only Intel is supported".  There have
> been attempts at getting AMD support going, but I think everyone involved
> gave up.
>
> Jeff.
>
> --
> Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them
>                 - Albert Einstein
>
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