Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964772AbWHCPSL (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:18:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964773AbWHCPSL (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:18:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33718 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964772AbWHCPSK (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:18:10 -0400 Message-ID: <44D213A3.6000009@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:17:55 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antonio Vargas CC: Arjan van de Ven , Zachary Amsden , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , greg@kroah.com, Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Jack Lo Subject: Re: A proposal - binary References: <44D1CC7D.4010600@vmware.com> <1154603822.2965.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <69304d110608030516y16f7d1fdiaccfbe4ecca3084a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <69304d110608030516y16f7d1fdiaccfbe4ecca3084a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 19 Antonio Vargas 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, That's not a good idea if you like performance. Paravirtualization makes a lot of sense. -- All Rights Reversed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/