2 Mar
2004
2 Mar
'04
16:27
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 17.22, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Many hardware architectures provide for a virtual mode, where the memory is mapped/translated so that it appears to the VM that it has been loaded at address 0. The host (linux in this case) pages the virtual memory and the hardware does the address translations.
Yeah, that's how the memory is handled for all user space processes
But yes, it is truely a virtual architecture
As I understand it it isn't fully virtual. For performance, they don't virtualise the x86 instruction set like for instance bochs does, it runs on the actual hardware, which is why you don't get VMware versions for non-x86 platforms