Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:05:08 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Antonio Vargas <windenntw@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, greg@kroah.com,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary
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* 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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