MS contributing to Linux

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu Jul 23 16:21:08 UTC 2009


>>> And I have the same thing as Derek: the only thing that's ever crashed my
>>> Ubuntu host is XP in VirtualBox. (It crashed it pretty hard, too, needed
>>> more than a restart.)
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I take it neither you nor Derek were using KVM? You running Windows with
>> a Xen vm with paravirtualized drivers?
>>     
>
> As we both said - XP guest in a Linux VirtualBox host.
>   

Rats, I have been using OpenSolaris for over a year but I never noticed 
Virtualbox. Guess I need to dig up a bit more on this. I take it that it 
is paravirtualization for the most part seeing that it added VMX/VT-X 
support?




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