Invisible wrote:
>>> Also - virtual machines are SOOOO SLOOOOOW... :-/
>>
>> 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?

I was right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization

Hardware-assisted virtualisation is a feature found only on the very 
newest CPUs from Intel and AMD.

That still leaves open the question of how some products claim to 
virtualise without emulation on CPUs that lack this technology.

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