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by milcron 3484 days ago
Correct. Currently it can only run OpenBSD guests, and it only supports x86.

The landscape is a little different now that hypervisors are no longer cutting edge, and the x86 architecture has improved virtualization abilities which help prevent some security flaws.
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dom0 3484 days ago
Wasn't TdR statement before hardware virtualization on x86 became commonplace? Before AMD-V / Intel VT x86 virtualization worked through bizarrely complex techniques (binary translation...)
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milcron 3484 days ago
He said that in ~2007? So that may be correct. x86 hardware virtualization has gone through several generations so his comments may have remained accurate even as hardware features were added.

Hardware-assisted virtualization really took off in ~2008, but they've continued to add features over the past decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization

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