Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [off-topic] Fully virtualisable CPUs (fwd) | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 1996 22:34:01 +0100 (BST) |
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> 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.
68010 and higher.
> 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?
No, but this is a pure software emulator so its nothing like as fast as a virtual machine.
Alan
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