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by Confiks 3381 days ago
It might be used for special applications, but not for your typical server that is connected to the internet, simply because it's horribly slow compared to the virtualization support (VT-x / AMD-V) most modern CPUs offer since at least 2010.
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Right, if you're running on x86 hardware. The use case is probably non-x86 hardware running x86 VMs.

For example, I remember using qemu to emulate RPi with ARM software emulation on my x86 machine.