We talked about this also. The best way to do this is actually just to
run multiple sessions of plex86 on the same machine, using a stripped down
version of X. This is because SVGAlib is lacking hardware acceleration
support.
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Psyon wrote:
> You could at very least make a very minimal linux distribution, and
> modify Plex86 to run with SVGA lib, and have each console be a diff OS.
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >>Luke-Jr wrote:
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> >>>Just wondering, but is there any hope to ever having a kernel that
> >>>merely emulates multiple PCs so that u can run different operating
> >>>systems at the same level? For example, after the BIOS the "Plex86
> >>>Kernel" could run and start booting Windows and Linux in VMs. It would
> >>>intercept Ctrl-Alt-Shift F1 to F12 keys and map F1 to the Plex86 Kernel
> >>>config, F2 to Linux, and F3 to Windows...
> >>>For example (see image):
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> [Image]
> >>>
> >>That would be a sweet cool thing I think.
> >>
> >Can't see much advantage to it. Plex86 would need a complete set of
> >device drivers rather than just using those of the host OS. Also
> >all OSen would run at emulated/virtualised speed. Under the current
> >setup the host OS runs at native speed. What practical advantage is
> >there to a bare-metal virtualiser over a hosted one?
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