NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor
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jdmulloy · 2019-01-24 13:55

> It is made of an ~MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged.

What do these acronyms mean? They should have explained what these
mean.

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jcs · 2019-01-24 14:27

MI = machine independent (portable)

MD = machine dependent (processor-specific)

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illumosguy · 2019-01-24 17:52

Worth mentioning the fact NVMM recently got a [major
update](https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/rev/68cee890c922)

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jdmulloy · 2019-01-24 18:50

Thanks

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NicheArchitecture · 2019-01-24 19:02

Very interesting that only the AMD SVM backend is currently supported