[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

[Geoff Flarity]

On Dec 4, 2011 7:21 PM, "Joshua M. Clulow" <josh at sysmgr.org> wrote:
>
> On 5 December 2011 10:41, Geoff Flarity <geoff.flarity at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Stay away from AMD if you're hoping to use this system with KVM.
> > There's no AMD support yet, and who knows when there will be.
>
> Depending on how much stuffing around you're up for, richlowe and I
> have done some preliminary port-to-AMD work.  It works well on my HP
> Microserver (AMD N36L CPU) and somewhat well on an older CPU in a
> machine richlowe had access to that does not have NPT.
>
>  https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-kvm
>
> There are definitely still bugs to iron out, but it's hard to do that
> without testers and access to more hardware.  :)

Wow, this is great news guys. Thanks for your hardwork. What are the exact
requirements in terms of amd CPU. I have an old one sitting around that I
doubt will work but I'm willing to upgrade to help test. My mobo supports
am2 and am3.

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