>perhaps qemu-ide specific drivers need to be done. > Many hosted OSs need custom made drivers to > be used with a virtualizer.
i must say that my experience with VM/370 was otherwise, for the standard devices. there were extensions you could access if you liked, but the basic emulation was solid. the only restriction i remember was that you couldn't any longer dynamically modify channel programs (by having a channel program read some blocks into memory that would later be executed in the same channel program), but other systems imposed a similar restriction on that hardware. the peculiar thing about the modern virtualisers/hypervisors etc is that they require specialised drivers but are no easier (often harder) to drive than actual hardware! it's all gone wrong!
