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Re: x86 -> x86 translation


From: Thomas Huth
Subject: Re: x86 -> x86 translation
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:29:58 +0200
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On 19/04/2021 16.23, Amir Naseredini wrote:
Interesting. But is the `KVM` running an `id` function or is the translation 
just quite similar to the original code (but not certainly the same)?

Well, KVM is (mostly) not translating the code at all, but running the guest code in a "virtual machine" on the host CPU. Only some few opcodes and things like I/O accesses have to be emulated in that case.

 Thomas




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