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The VMI virtualization interface
The VMI virtualization interface
Posted Mar 16, 2006 23:53 UTC (Thu) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636)In reply to: The VMI virtualization interface by iabervon
Parent article: The VMI virtualization interface
Yup. You need kernel support because you'll want to run the kernel in ring 1 which is normally not accessible to userspace.
It may be more natural to use something like Qemu as a base though since it already supports all of the platform hardware emulation.
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The VMI virtualization interface
Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:20 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]
> It may be more natural to use something like Qemu as a base though > since it already supports all of the platform hardware emulation. If you're talking about running an unmodified Linux kernel inside a userspace emulator, surely Qemu can do that already -- no UML required? Would the VMI make it any easier to do so?
The VMI virtualization interface
Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:21 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]
My comment did *not* look like that in preview ... strange.