Re: [Xen-users] Minimal Hypervisor Size?

[Dave Cameron <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What about hardware support, you'd still need some way to emulate
> hardware or it wouldn't be a whole lot of use. You'd have to rip a whole
> chunk of code out of Linux or BSD.
> 
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 16:13 -0500, dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > How large would a hypervisor be if it were constructed
> > as the smallest program supporting the virtualization of
> > unmodified operating systems only (i.e. no linux-specific
> > features, no para-virtualization)?

Would not the hardware support need to be OS-independent in order
to work with the (unspecified) unmodified operating systems?

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