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Hello,

El 02/04/15 a les 20.23, Gustau Pérez ha escrit:
> 
> 
> On 01/04/2015 12:41, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> El 01/04/15 a les 12.30, Udo Rader ha escrit:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> first please excuse if this may be a FAQ, but even though I am a long
>>> time linux admin (~1996), I am quite new to the *BSD world and I am
>>> trying to evaluate if FreeBSD fits our virtualization needs.
>>>
>>> So, for my many questions:
>>>
>>> As far as my homework digging revealed, FreeBSD supports four hypervisors:
>>>
>>> * bhyve
>>> * KVM
>>> * QEMU
>>> * VirtualBox
>> Make that 5:
>>  * Xen: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0
> 
>    Hi,
> 
>    reading the wiki, I see EPT seems to be mandatory, is there any way
> to run without the EPT extension in legacy hardware?

Not really, FreeBSD Dom0 runs in PVH mode, which requires EPT at the
moment. We could maybe get rid of the EPT requirement, but the IOMMU
support is mandatory, and IIRC there's no hardware with IOMMUs but
without EPT.

Roger.