linux-kernel - Re: A proposal

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Message-ID: <20060803160508.GB11244@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date:	Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:05:08 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Antonio Vargas <windenntw@...il.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, greg@...ah.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@...are.com>
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary

* Antonio Vargas (windenntw@...il.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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