Hardware VM support for Jails

Mark Felder feld at feld.me
Mon Jan 14 12:39:18 UTC 2013


On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:18:34 -0600, <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:

> Hello :-)
>
> I was wondering if there is a hardware accelerated Jail using
> Virtualization CPU extensions in BSD or everything is done in Kernel
> by software? SUSE is advertising their "light virtualization" (no
> hardware emulation) I was wondering if BSD has this capabilities too
> ;-) What would be benefit for this over Jail?
>

The jails don't need to use these CPU extensions because jails are just  
like running the native OS. There really aren't any abstraction layers  
hindering performance.


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