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by kmavm 1354 days ago
The idea that "virtualization" began with Zen in 2004 is rather difficult to read as an early VMware employee. Before QEMU independently discovered it, VMware was JIT'ing unrestricted x86 to a safe x86 subset from 1999 on[1]. Hardware support for trap-and-emulate virtualization came to the market in the early 'aughts after VMware had proven the market demand for it.

[1] https://www.vmware.com/pdf/asplos235_adams.pdf