> I would love a virtualization that would present the "real" hardware 
> configuration. The best would be arbitration between host and guest but more 
> likely, the emulation would present it but remain a "buffer" between the 
> guest and the host.

I am not a specialist but this seems very complicated if not virtually 
impossible. Unlike mac's that are standardized; PC are found with 
different hardware. Knowing each hardware that can exist is virtually 
impossible for a virtual machine like virtualbox. Arbitration between 
host and guest requires a certain level of cooperation from the guest 
but Windows is not done at all in this mind and due to its proprietary 
nature cannot be customised.

Olive

> 
> I believe that Qemu can run an alternative kernel image in certain formats 
> directly.

Yes but this is not related to this topic. Normally Lilo/Grub put the 
kernel and initrd in memory; qemu can put a linux kernel image and an 
initrd in memory directly. This can be convenient as it save a Lilo/Grub 
configuration but offer nothing more.

Olive


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