On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:58:11AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jim C. Brown wrote: > > >Fabrice had said that he > >wants > >kqemu to be able to do total virtualization (both kernel and userland > > >>bits); > >basically all the translation code of qemu would be left unused but the > >hardware> >emulation would still be shared. > > > > > I reckon this means taking advantage of VT and Pacifica when they're > available so the kernel code can be safely run on bare metal. >
No, I got the impression that Fabrice was taking about virtualization the way VMware, old plex86, and vmbear (new FOSS x86 virtualizer in the works) do it. So it'll work w/o needing a 64bit chip. > FWIW, Xen is already using QEMU in this way. It would be very neat to > see this technique applied to a Type II VMM. > Do you have any details on this? > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
