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 >
