AMD K5 - AMD's first original microarchitecture. The K5 was based on the AMD Am29000 micro architecture with the addition of an x86 decoder. Although the design was similar in idea to a Pentium Pro, the actual performance was more like that of a Pentium.
AMD K6 - The K6 was not based on the K5 and was instead based on the Nx686 processor that was being designed by NexGen when that company was bought by AMD. The K6 was generally pin-compatible with the Intel Pentium (unlike NexGen's existing processors).
AMD K6-2 - An improved K6 with the addition of the 3DNow!SIMD instructions.
In the HVM case the "PV kernel" is actually hvmloader and isn't PV at all, the job of hvmloader is to load all the necessary information that qemu will use to build the necessary environment that will "fool" an unmodified guest that he is in fact on a physical machine. In summary hvmloader pretty much just fills data-structures as follows:
Can you tell me an exact location of Linux kernel driver under Linux file system? Where to find all available modules under Linux operating systems?
The /lib/modules/kernel-version/ directory stores all compiled drivers under Linux operating system. You can use the modprobe command to intelligently add or remove a module from the Linux kernel. The modprobe command looks in the module directory /lib/modules/$(uname -r) for all the modules and other files, except for the optional /etc/modprobe.conf configuration file and /etc/modprobe.d directory. Type the following command to display current modules directory name:
