[vbox-dev] 386, 486 or 686?

[Ribhi Kamal]

I'm worried that some of these relatively new instructions might add more
instructions that are troublesome to virtualize. So I'm inclined to using
the arch with the smallest feature set, 386, rather than 686. Does that
sound right?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Ribhi Kamal <rbhkamal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >From a Virtualbox point of view, would a Linux kernel be easier/faster
> > to virtualize if it was targeted for a 386 CPU architecture, 486 or 686?
> > Would it make a difference at all?
>
> I think 686 would be faster, as more instructions are available (MMX,
> cmov, ...)
>
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