On 3/5/2024 5:59 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 13:40, RR NN <rnn59...@gmail.com> 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.
As explained above you can't run x86 Guest OS w/ above Hypervisors. You can use the qemu/crosvm w/ above Hypervisors to do the ARM64 guest OS. You may be able to use Pixel device as well w/ the pKVM. I also suggest that you don't do the "reactions" with gmail. It doesn't help this conversation. Let us know what exactly you would like to experiment with above Hypervisors. -- ---Trilok Soni
