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> What I've been thinking about is NOT actually virtualizing one OS
> under another at the kernel level, but peacefully coexistance by one
> OS relying on the other for device driver support (through a set of
> proxy device drivers) and avoidance of the memory usage of the other
> OS.
> The idea is that you literally flip back and forth between the OS's
> and reconfigure the VMM memory system so that only the appropriate
> real memory pages are available to the running OS.
What's the point? If you are talking Linux and WinXX here, it would mean
that Linux knows the innards of WinXX, and viceversa. I.e, they would have
to be developed together. But then it would be easier to integrate whatever
WinXX into Linux, and have _both_ at hand at the same time.
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