It has been mentioned in past discussions on this mailing-list that it would be desirable to be able to run multiple plex86 VM sessions in parallel--possibly using a shared (common) supervisory thread or something of the like. Just recently it was mentioned that it might be a good idea to separate some of the parts of the rather monolithic Bochs plug-in--I agree with this notion. In fact, I'd like to carry its discussion one step further and suggest a full objectification of those parts of the whole plug-in set that may be objectified--including a break-up of the Bochs plug-in into some smaller, more managible, chunks (we are using C++, aren't we?). This would, in effect, make inter-plug-in communication simpler (a function call--yes I know about overhead here, but the plug-ins should--in theory be able to run on the host), but more importantly it allows for there to be a “supervisor” plug-in. This could allow two things: Plug&Play virtualization and A possibly more efficent VM with “virtual hardware-level debugging” (what signals are being sent on our virtual PCI bus anyway?). Just a few thoughts......, Drew Northup N1XIM
