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Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 13:36 UTC (Tue) by sandholm (guest, #48477)
Parent article: Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Poster danpb is correct.

Xen, when used with a cpu that supports VT, will run full virtualization.
And the article failed to mention QEMU, of which some parts have been used to implement KVM.
QEMU is OSS and supports full virtualization.


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Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 14:40 UTC (Tue) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]

In a way, it goes beyond that. Virtualbox is partially based on QEMU, although the wikipedia
article for qemu suggests they have improved on QEMU through more static code analysis.

Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 17:41 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Does Xen+VT still have to bounce IO around between hardware, domain0 and guest?

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