Looking at buying some SuperMicro gear for running Triton. Some of the machines that look interesting are AMD-based. Is this still true (copied from docs.tritondatacenter.com): "For hardware virtual machine support, an Intel CPU is required that supports the EPT feature. All current Intel Xeon E3, E5, and E7 processors should contain support for this. A full list of Intel CPUs is available from Intel. AMD CPUs are not currently supported for hardware virtualization

I'm guessing that guidance is obsoleted by bhyve: docs.smartos.org/bhyve

yes and no

bhyve should work fine w/ any non-ancient AMD

KVM will not

Makes sense.

which is almost never an issue

jdt: Also, triton now defaults to creating bhyve zones

unless you have existing VMs that predate bhyve

It's all green field, so no worries there.

Thank you for the info.

And you can set hvm images to be bhyve only after you import them, so you can completely prevent KVM from ever existing in your datacetnter

Cool, good to know.

I was experimenting with FreeBSD images yesterday (because some of the folks I work with like using it). The "official" images are pretty old, but at least can be upgraded all the way to current (with a little finagling). Is there any plan to update those core images?