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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a VirtualBox section to Handbook's 'Virtualization'
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> But isn't qemu distinctly different in the way it works from a
>> virtualization program like VMWare or VirtualBox? I think the first
>> paragraph serves well as a gentle introduction to the topic.
>
> How different?  Wine, I could see, but qemu?  Please elaborate ...
>

AFAIK qemu also provides processor emulation, thus is mostly referred to
as an emulator rather than a virtual machine. I am no expert on this
though - I've used qemu in the past but could never get the level of
performance possible with VirtualBox or VMWare (which beats them both I
believe).

The paragraph was loosely based on the original one stating "No
virtualization solution for FreeBSD as a host". Seems the original
author also did not consider qemu as a virtual machine in this sense.