[OT] Virtualization (WAS: UNIX V7)

[Pontus Pihlgren]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:40:19AM -0700, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> I agree, but then there's also the dividing line between a VM and 
> virtualization. Actually, I'm not surprised to hear that some emulation
> had to be done for x86 originally -- the ISA certainly doesn't lend itself
> well to virtualizing out of the box ;-)

Someone told me that VMware still emulates some of the instructions that 
could be virtualized either because they are buggy or slow. Don't take 
my word for it though.

/P