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Gotta wonder who this is targeted towards - the likes of VMWare definitely not as I am sure they've spent a lot of time optimizing everything that happens in kernel space inside their drivers and surely there's more than 24 API calls they'll need inside the kernel to get something like Fusion working.

Maybe Apple is planning to provide a built-in hypervisor and this is just a start of it. Or maybe this is just for old DOS/Win games that'll sell for $9.99 in the appstore.

Also a cursory look shows the API is rather Intel specific. That's fine for the status quo but if they ever switch CPU vendors again wonder how this will work out.

parent blinkingled 12 years ago

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