Re: A proposal - binary

From: Chris Wright
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 12:01:30 EST


* Antonio Vargas (windenntw@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> If the essence of using virtual machines is precisely that the machine
> acts just as if it was a real hardware one, then we should not need
> any modifications to the kernel. So, it would be much better if the
> hypervirsor was completely transparent and just emulated a native cpu
> and a common native set of hardware, which would then work 100% with
> the native code in the kernel. This keeps the smarts of virtual
> machine management on the hypervisor.

You have missed the point of paravirtualizing x86.
-chris
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