25 Oct 16 23:51, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

 MM>>> Apparently it is possible to run KVM on a raspberry pi. I'm not sure
 MM>>> how well it will work, though. Might need to wait for the 4th
 MM>>> generation. :)

 TL>> DOSBox and QEmu are other options for running DOS apps on the Pi,
 TL>> that have been used in the past.  So KVM can emulate a x86 processor
 TL>> when run on a non x86 system?

 MM> yeah, KVM is virtualization built into the linux kernel. Many large
 MM> companies run KVM VMs at this point.  My BBS actually runs on a KVM
 MM> virtual machine, and I run Dosemu on top of that.

that's what we do over here on T's Linux/Mystic system for the DOS doors... we
need to do the same thing for Max's synchronet system but haven't gotten around
to straightening the mess made earlier when we tried to do that... we know it
works with T's system so the same should also work with Max's... it is just a
matter of removing the bad .dosemu directory and trying again with the proper
edits to the dosemu config...

 MM> There is, of course, overhead, and I don't think the Pi has much in
 MM> the way of virtualization instructions, so I'm not entirely sure how
 MM> well it would run.  It might be something fun to play with, though.

my understanding is that it has more to do with the chip-level core
instructions... some are just not available and cannot be emulated...

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