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Ya.. it starts up like that. But it rarely stays like that.
In the case of Xen I think your looking at about 300-400K lines of code in a full-featured version.
In the case of KVM the initial patch was about 12K loc and was accepted almost immediately into the kernel code. (quite a achievement)
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