# [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS KVM on AMD Processor

Robert Treat robert at omniti.com
Sat Aug 23 17:33:48 UTC 2014

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    I believe the last serious effort was at https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-kvm, but as mentioned that's a few years on now (but still probably the best starting point). Personally, I don't really see AMD support coming to illumos KVM anytime soon given the lack of people willing to contribute either effort or funding to it; I can say we have no plans to work on it in the near future (we run on Intel)

    Robert Treat

    On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Suleyman Nazif Kutlu
    <subscriptions at e-snk.me> wrote:

    > Thanks Josef, I could not find/hear any positive / negative feedback on
    > Internet about KVM AMD support on Illumos based OSes (OmniOS, SmartOS, etc)
    > neither.
    > So this is what I was afraid of. Now I will switch back to backup plan ZOL
    > on Ubuntu / Debian :(
    > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc at josefsipek.net>
    > wrote:
    >> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 04:02:26PM +0200, Suleyman Nazif Kutlu wrote:
    >> > Hi all,
    >> >
    >> > I am brand new to OmniOS. Reading some documentation on Internet I found
    >> > out that on Illumos based OSes KVM is only supported on Intel processors.
    >> > Is this true for OmniOS as well?
    >> >
    >> > I am planning to use OmniOS on an AMD processor server with ZFS+KVM+Zones
    >> > as a virtualization host for some personal Web Servers, databases, Home
    >> > Fileserver, Multimedia Streaming, etc..
    >> >
    >> > I started with Ubuntu+KVM several years ago, then migrated to ESXi 5.x...
    >> > Now I want to use ZFS as well. This is main reason for me to start
    >> thinking
    >> > about Illumos based OSes.
    >> >
    >> > Although ZOL is available on Ubuntu, I believe, as many others on
    >> Internet,
    >> > ZFS on Illumos based OSes are more mature then ZOL.
    >> >
    >> > If this works on AMD processor, I will start migrations as soon as
    >> > possible...
    >>
    >> Unless OmniTI managed to get that working (I haven't heard about anything
    >> like that), the answer is still "no, only Intel is supported".  There have
    >> been attempts at getting AMD support going, but I think everyone involved
    >> gave up.
    >>
    >> Jeff.
    >>
    >> --
    >> Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them
    >>                 - Albert Einstein
    >>
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