On Wed, 31 Jan 96 13:23:18 EST 
 Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU wrote:

 > I think you may have a different definition of 'cool' than I do...

Quite possibly, yes :-)

 > Even if you _wanted_ to do binary translation or binary emulation, you
 > shouldn't to do it in the kernel, and there's no great _benefit_ to
 > doing it in the kernel.

Over lunch yesterday, Stu and I were tossing ideas around that could 
greatly improve the performance of his emulator.  We came up with at 
least a couple of reasons why having a virtual machine run in the kernel 
was a good idea (for some definition of good idea), one of which is 
access to kernel facilities which just aren't available to user-space 
(pick any number of such facilities...we were focusing on those 
pertaining to I/O).

Anyhow, it might be fun to LKM such a virtual machine for two pretty good 
reasons:

	- proof of concept
	- sick, twisted, cool hack

Pick the one that's more important to you.  :-)

If course, this all depends on how much time you have to work on such 
silliness, but whatever :-)

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