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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
> 
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