From: Karl Magdsick <kmagnum@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:26:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd8ecdef050915142644768e9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050914133733.GA6052@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>
> VMware handles kernel code. You are right that x86 code can't be 100% virtualized
> (even at the userland level) but VMware uses a lot of nasty disgusting tricks
> in order to work around them. (For example, playing with shadow pagetables
> so that a page of modified code is run but if the code tries to inspect itself
> it sees another (unexecuted) page that contains the original code.)
I take it self-modifying kernel code would have serious issues.
I seem to recall my attempts to run v2OS (which uses a self-modifying
assembly code boot sequence) inside VMWare crashing badly circa 2001.
-Karl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 12:36 [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS Alexandre Leclerc
2005-09-13 13:08 ` Adrian Smarzewski
2005-09-13 18:02 ` Alexandre Leclerc
2005-09-13 13:38 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-13 14:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-09-13 21:48 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 0:18 ` Mark Williamson
2005-09-14 2:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-09-14 3:48 ` Mark Williamson
2005-09-14 4:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-09-14 4:58 ` Mike Swanson
2005-09-14 13:39 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 18:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-09-14 22:42 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 13:37 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 15:47 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-09-14 17:53 ` Mark Williamson
2005-09-14 17:18 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-09-14 22:34 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-09-14 17:46 ` Mark Williamson
2005-09-15 21:26 ` Karl Magdsick [this message]
2005-09-15 23:24 ` Mark Williamson
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