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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:55:05 +0000
From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Intel Vanderpool VM extensions
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	from wes@village.com on Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:11:07PM -0500
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:11:07PM -0500, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
>
> Some people on the Eros list had difficulty finding information about
> Intel's new Vanderpool VM extensions. Someone came up with:
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> <http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/197666.htm>.
>
> ...which I thought I'd pass along in case Plan 9 folks had similar difficulty.

Interesting... I'd not heard of this.  SoI had a quick glance...

Does this stuff make the x86 completely virtualisable without
jumping through the hoops that vmware / qemu have to follow?

DF