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In other words, they were bare-metal hypervisors which passed through the majority of the hardware, doing a minimum of virtualisation to allow sharing it betwee
by userbinator 5mo ago
In other words, they were bare-metal hypervisors which passed through the majority of the hardware, doing a minimum of virtualisation to allow sharing it between VMs. This is easy to see by comparing the responsiveness of a DOS box running something like EDIT in Win9x vs. NT/2K/XP's NTVDM; the latter is a full emulator of basically all the hardware except the CPU.
- cyberax 5mo agoThe unresponsive NTDVM was mainly due to its piss-poor text mode emulation. Win9x still virtualized the graphics card (so you couldn't use SVGA games in Win9x) but its emulation was implemented better.
- ForOldHack 5mo agoSee? Pepperage Farm and cyberax remembers! Exactly.
- anthk 5mo agoYou can use Reactos' NTDVM in Windows XP just fine.
- ForOldHack 5mo ago[flagged]