>>> 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?

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

Post a reply to this message