On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:48:42PM -0500, Calvin Smith wrote:
> Your idea seems to be the same setup as just having a small linux
> install that only has plex86 installed. The difference is the ability
> to use hard drive directly instead of as a file. However, this could
> be added.
> I believe it would be better to focus on running the guest on a
> seperate processor than the host thereby allowing both guest and host
> to run without worrying if they are going to step on each other.
That'd probably eliminate some complexity and cause others. You still couldn't
run it at unmonitored ring 0, though -- there's the hardware to deal with.
Good idea, but...
Hey, while we're on the topic of direct hard drive access, how about do like
VMWare and allow / deny access to drives by partition, etc., and keep a diff
file instead of writing to the disk raw as an option (extend VMWare's
capabilities by allowing a disk to be the combination of the real hard disk
and a selectable number of diff files that you could switch between (i.e.,
games, Office, devel, etc. if you run Windows). Doesn't sound that hard, but
adds overhead (suitable caching should significantly reduce this overhead).
Kenneth
