Re: [Qemu-devel] International Virtualization Conference

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 5:26 am, Joshua Root wrote:
> Part of the generally accepted definition of virtualization is that the
> majority of guest instructions execute directly on the real CPU with no
> intervention by the VMM. QEMU + qvm86 does count as virtualization if
> the system spends most of its time in user mode; QEMU on its own does
> not (you run code that is very different to the original binary).

So it stops being a virtual environment if you run Java or Python in it?  (or 
anything else that uses bytecode?)

Or if I get one of those old Rockwell Java processors (or a Dallas 
semiconductor Java iButton, or an ARM processor with a J in it) and make a 
coprocessor out of it (I dunno, plug it into the USB port and send code to 
it), I now have a virtual Java environment because the bytecode is running on 
real hardware?

Rob
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