{"id":269200,"date":"2026-06-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/linuxs-kvm-preps-for-apx-support-in-vms\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:15:13","slug":"linuxs-kvm-preps-for-apx-support-in-vms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/linuxs-kvm-preps-for-apx-support-in-vms\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux&#8217;s KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.2-Preps-KVM-For-APX\">Linux&#8217;s KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.2-Preps-KVM-For-APX\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.2-Preps-KVM-For-APX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Performance Extensions is a major update to x86 for future Intel\/AMD CPUs. APX doubles the number of general purpose registers, there is a new direct jump instruction, optimized state save\/restore, and other ISA improvements. Intel Nova Lake and Xeon Diamond Rapids processors will be debuting APX later it will also come to AMD CPUs.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2023&#038;image=intel_apx_med\" alt=\"Intel APX\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For Linux 7.2 it doesn&#8217;t look like the actual KVM APX support will be ready but a lot of preparations being made so hopefully it will be ready for v7.3, which still puts it ahead of Diamond Rapids and Nova Lake processors shipping. <\/p>\n<p>Merged to KVM&#8217;s &#8220;next&#8221; Git branch recently was the preparation code for KVM APX, including to ready KVM for going from 16 to 32 general purpose registers. There was also another follow-up merge to also prepare for the upcoming APX support.\n<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not over the finish line yet but with Linux 7.2 the initial preparations are being made to prepare KVM for supporting APX within VMs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.2-Preps-KVM-For-APX\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux&#8217;s KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.2-Preps-KVM-For-APX Publish Date: 2026-06-10 06:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2023&image=intel_apx","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-269200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269203,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269200\/revisions\/269203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}