Jonathan Perret wrote:
> I would be interested to know whether it makes virtualization
> impossible. I would say that it does not - as far as I
> understand, the guest is not supposed to *ever*
> see the host addresses. Nothing prevents plex86 from making
> the guest believe that 0x90000000 is actually 0x1000000...
> Opinions are welcome.

No, for plex86 it doesn't make a difference.  However for
programs like Wine or DOSEMU it would, because the processor's
VM86 mode requires, IIRC, that the virtualised physical addresses
correspond to the virtual addresses in the vm86 thread'd address
space.
 
-- Ramon

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