[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS KVM on AMD Processor

[Robert Treat]

I believe the last serious effort was at https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-kvm, but as mentioned that's a few years on now (but still probably the best starting point). Personally, I don't really see AMD support coming to illumos KVM anytime soon given the lack of people willing to contribute either effort or funding to it; I can say we have no plans to work on it in the near future (we run on Intel)


Robert Treat

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Suleyman Nazif Kutlu
<subscriptions at e-snk.me> wrote:

> 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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