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DateThu, 3 Aug 2006 09:05:08 -0700
FromChris Wright <>
SubjectRe: A proposal - binary
* Antonio Vargas (windenntw@gmail.com) 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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