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RE: [Xen-devel] Integrate kqemu emulation into xen hypervisor possible?

To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Integrate kqemu emulation into xen hypervisor possible?
From: "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:12:55 -0400
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Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:19:35AM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > 
> > I was wondering if now that the kqemu source has been GPL'd if it was
> > possible if it's functionality could be incorporated into the Xen
> > hypervisor to provide full virtualization on hardware that doesn't
> > support it?
> 
> Nice april fools joke.

Lol, no I wasn't joking, maybe naive, but not joking.

No I was trying to see if there was any interest if adding support
for full virtualization in Xen to allow non-xenified domains to
run on systems that have no hardware virtualization support. Maybe
slower then hardware virtualization, but at least run.

-Ross

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