Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jim Nance <> | Subject | Re: [off-topic] Fully virtualisable CPUs (fwd) | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:34:42 -0400 (EDT) |
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Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 21:45:18 +1000
> ulmo@q.net wrote: > > > > It seems to me trivial to have a little virtualisable module which > > simply picked up an instruction, examined it for whether it was trying > > to get a report on CPU state, and then recoded the instructions to do > > the CPU state manually, and at the end of the code piece jump back > > into the little just-in-time-interpreting-reassembler for the next > > instruction.
Can any of the non-x86 CPUs that linux runs on be virtualized? It might be really nice to be able to run Linux under Linux as a user process for debugging purposes.
When Jim Paradise first did the Linux port, there was a program which provided a virtual AXP machine on AXP, x86, and Sparc platforms. I forget what it was called (isp?), but that was how I first booted Linux/Alpha. Does anyone know if that program will still run current Linux kernels?
Jim
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