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>>> They aren't that slow. Thing is, you're using QEMU, which isn't a
>>> virtual
>>> machine, it's an emulator. Software like VMware or VirtualBox use
>>> your real
>>> CPU instead of basically executing x86 code on an interpreter.
>>
>> Presumably that requires *very* specialised hardware though?
>
> Not at all. VirtualPC is what I'm using on my destop. I run it on my
> laptop as well. VMWare (workstation) will run on any modern PC with a
> compatible processor (virtually all of the intel and AMD chips)
> That's the whole point of virtual machines, they don't need specialised
> hardware
But surely if you're going to run a guest OS on the physical host CPU,
the host CPU would need to have hardware support for enforcing the host
seperation?
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