Re: [Qemu-devel] OT: Running qemu without host os?

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From: Peter Karlsson <petekarl@student.chalmers.se>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Sent: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:10:33 +0100 (MET)
Subject: [Qemu-devel] OT: Running qemu without host os?

> Hi!
> 
> I'm toying with the idea of running qemu as a vm from linuxbios and then
> boot another os inside the vm (qemu). Qemu would have to virtualise the
> hardware but still let the virtual os access hardware via normal hardware
> registers, i.e. the os would not know a real computer from a virtualised
> one. Is this theoretically possible, or maybe even practically?
i and my friend are trying to make a tiny (live)distro running only qemu. then
make qemu boot the os on the computer. does that come anywhere near?
> 
> One of the reasons for doing something like this would be to snoop windows
> driver registers for example reverse engineering of graphics 
> hardware and maybe wireless network cards. But I can think of 
> several other useful areas like high-availability, remote management 
> of cluster nodes etc...
we are working towards the cluster part..
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Peter K
> 
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