ACAPI--that is all the needs to be said here (about the time part anyway).
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Ramon van Handel
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plex86] Save/Restore capabilities
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> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, James Mastros wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:44:30PM -0500, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> > > There are always details which complicate things. There are
> > > areas like notions of time in the monitor, and other factors
> > > peripheral to the CPU/memory state that need to be saved/restored.
> > Right. That's why this is non-trivial. The trivial parts are already
> > done <G>.
> >
> > I'm not certian what the big deal is about time. At present,
> time for the
> > guest isn't really linear; it depends on how much time we're
> scheduled for.
> > WRT freezing, we've got two choices:
> > 1) Time stops while frozen. This is what I assumed. This
> shouldn't mess up
> > anything except for the RTC being off from reality.
>
> You can solve the RTC problem using a simple custom guest-OS driver.
> Doesn't VMWARE do something like that?
>
> -- Ramon
>
> (PS, have been out for a while but perhaps I'll have some time again now
> for those mods :). I've got some ideas on performance, will post them
> later).
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