On 3 May 2016 at 16:55, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll retrench and restate that in terms of "it depends". If your CPU > doesn't support Hardware Virtualization Mode, you're out of luck: > > http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5460/our-look-at-xp-mode-in-windows-7/
16-bit support and hardware virtualisation extensions are 2 totally separate and orthogonal issues. Secondly, desktop hypervisors such as VirtualBox and VMware can do software trapping of Ring 0 instructions on systems lacking hardware virtualisation extensions, so they will still work and the method I suggest will still function. I'd expect that performance would drop 15% or so, though. I suspect that 16-bit code compatibility will remain in x86-64 until the end of its days, but I could be wrong... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
