Awesome, thanks for the info!

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, 17:29 Peter Maydell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 13:40, RR NN <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> > ARM hypervisors (pKVM, Gunyah) can run x86 OSs?
>
> No. A hypervisor uses the host CPU's virtualization extensions
> to allow the guest code to run directly on the host CPU. This
> is why they're fast. This also means that they only work when
> the guest CPU is the same architecture as the host CPU.
> So you can run an x86 OS on an x86 host CPU, or an Arm
> OS on an Arm host CPU using a hypervisor, but you can't run
> a guest of the "wrong" architecture.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>

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