Good morning, I have what I hope to be a simple question to answer.. I have some software that I would like to run, that requires x86 32-bit architecture. However I have been presented with IBM P560 C Type platform (Power chips). Is it possible to run Xen on this hardware and provide a hardware layer that looks like x86 32-bit for the software? Regards Adam _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hello Adam, On 5/23/11 11:24 AM, Adam Hunter wrote:> > Good morning, I have what I hope to be a simple question to answer.. > > I have some software that I would like to run, that requires x86 > 32-bit architecture. However I have been presented with IBM P560 C > Type platform (Power chips). Is it possible to run Xen on this > hardware and provide a hardware layer that looks like x86 32-bit for > the software? >No, that''s not possible. Xen doesn''t emulate x86, it only virtualizes it, just like the hypervisor does on your P560. You could try to compile qemu (http://qemu.org) under AIX. But performance will probably suck big time. Just buy a separate machine for your x86 software. As you have a P560, cost should not be a big problem for you :-) Good luck, Thomas _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Adam Hunter <adam_hunter22@hotmail.com> wrote:> Good morning, I have what I hope to be a simple question to answer.. > > > > I have some software that I would like to run, that requires x86 32-bit > architecture. However I have been presented with IBM P560 C Type platform > (Power chips). Is it possible to run Xen on this hardware and provide a > hardware layer that looks like x86 32-bit for the software?Nope. You''re out of luck. qemu should be able to emulate x86, but even if it works performance would be terrible. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Thomas Ronner <thomas@ronner.org> wrote:> Just buy a separate machine for your x86 software. As you have a P560, cost > should not be a big problem for you :-)You''ll be surprised at the level of ridiculousness (is that a proper word?) in some enterprise. Once upon a time I had to use a solaris-sparc server (forgot which model), with monitor and keyboard attached, as a workstation. Reason being they couldn''t provide a PC in a timely manner :P -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 5/23/11 12:45 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:> You''ll be surprised at the level of ridiculousness (is that a proper > word?) in some enterprise.Yes, I''m very familiar with rediculousness within enterprises, whether it''s a proper word or not ;-) Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 05/23/2011 11:24 AM, Adam Hunter wrote:> > Good morning, I have what I hope to be a simple question to answer.. > > I have some software that I would like to run, that requires x86 > 32-bit architecture. However I have been presented with IBM P560 C > Type platform (Power chips). Is it possible to run Xen on this > hardware and provide a hardware layer that looks like x86 32-bit for > the software? > > Regards > > Adam >Hello Adam, IBM PowerVM Lx86 [1] could be interesting for you. It is heavily used for consolidation of x86 Linux apps to amazing IBM pSeries servers. Hope this helps you. -- Peter Viskup [1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/virtualization/editions/lx86/index.html _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users