>> The only problem with that, of course, is that paging is controlled by
>> the operating system, not by a user-level application program.
>
> Yes, of course. That's also why virtual machines are mind-bogglingly
> slow and/or rely on specially patched OSes. Rrrright.
>
> Andy, wake up.

You say that, but last time I tried to do virtualisation on Linux, it 
/did/ actually require loading a special kernel module. (Which is 
presumably why it didn't work when I tried it...)

No idea how it works in Windows.

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