Re: booting Linux from a dos box in win3.1

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 3 Sep 1996 22:14:13 +0100 (BST)


> Is it possible to fool instructions like LAR so we could convince a
> program in user mode that it was running in kernel mode?

Nope. Motorola got this 100% right on the 680x0 series processors, Intels
x86 processors are not virtualisable, they just have a cute virtual 8086
hack.

Alan