El Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:48:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ens deleit� amb les seg�ents paraules: [...] > Well, for one -- as I said -- the hypervisor could be completely > transparent, just emulating the "real" device, so the subhurd doesn't > even know it's not talking to the kernel. This is more complicated on the > hypervisor side, but has the advantage of requiring no modifications in > the guest system using it. [...] > So unless I am missing something important now, my previous statement was > false. Having the hypervisor (or the BPF server) implemented as a > translator should not make things more complicated in any way :-)
And using a device hypervisor can have very nice properties for mutually communicating virtualized environments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiperSocket Read you, Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth
