> Without kvm support, qemu is *quite a bit* slower. Now, exactly *why* > somebody, in this day and age, would still go on manufacturing > processors without hardware virtualization support built in, is beyond > me. The production costs are in all probability virtually > identical...
It's called market segmentation. I.e. it's done so that people who have more money spend more, while people with less money can still spend theirs as well. AMD provides virtualization support across the whole range of chips just so as to have a (cheap) selling point against Intel at the low-end. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org