On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 13:17:44 -0400, Kevin P. Lawton wrote:
>> - Start thinking about the framework for hardware emulation; this
>> could be done in parallel by running a purely ring-3 guest which
>> doesn't need much virtualization support, but could be used to
>> test hardware accesses ...
>
>That's an interesting point about running a pure ring3 guest.
>That wouldn't require the virtualization of protection level
>transitions etc. Could start by virtualizing one thing
>at a time. True, we could virtualize IO in ring3 code as
>well. It would be a bogus OS anyways, so might as well.
>Good stuff.
Just thinking out loud here:
Isn't a purely Ring-3 OS also called DOS? :)
Tim Massey
