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on 26/05/2011 22:25 Nate Lawson said the following:
> This might be a useful source for making ACPI compatible with Windows.
> 
> http://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/revnic
> 
> I had thought of a project like this before. My idea was to take QEMU
> and map PCI config space and allow direct access to the bare hardware
> for only one device. The developer would install Windows in this QEMU
> image on a system with the target device, identify it by its PCI id, and
> then run Windows normally. The VM would log the driver's accesses to
> config space as well as use CoW semantics for DMA accesses to memory and
> IO ports.

Something like this?
http://www.serialice.com/News/News.html

> Now that Intel/AMD support hardware virtualization and DMA isolation, it
> would be better to do this with a modified Xen hypervisor.

-- 
Andriy Gapon