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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> That said, pulling 400 KLOC of code into the kernel sounds really
>> excessive. Would we need all that if we just do native virtualization
>> and no actual emulation?
>
> What is native virtualization and no actual emulation?

What I meant with "actual emulation" was running architecture A code
on architecture B what was qemu's traditional use case. So the
question was how much of the 400 KLOC do we need for just KVM on all
the architectures that it supports?