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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU-fast and guest os


From: John R. Hogerhuis
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU-fast and guest os
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:32:58 -0700

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 07:06, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> > can or will qemu-fast ever be able to have Windows/XP/2000/2003 as a
> > guest?
> 
> No. QEMU-Fast requires a patched *guest* kernel and since Windows is not
> open source, such a patch cannot be made.
> 


That's the 'will ever' answer.

The 'can ever' is, of course, it would just be very hard work. It
wouldn't be the first time in history someone has patched a binary
modules. In fact, that used to be pretty typical before the open source
movement came to fruition. The disassembler was your friend.

-- John.






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