On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Steve Coleman wrote: > Look at the old plex86 if you want to learn about that kind of stuff, > the new one only runs Linux images under Linux as to run more > efficiently without lots of code scanning and op replacements to trap > them as a work around. Or Xen. Xen takes a different approach and runs a slightly modified Linux (or OpenBSD, or several other things) in what they call "paravirtualization". Xen has very very low overhead and also supports mildly insane things like moving a running Linux image between two machines without downtime of any note