Re: A proposal - binary

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 11:15:52 EST


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.

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