Amiga Hypervisor

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How is this any different from UAE?

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For a VM (aka hypervisor) to work, you need the host hardware to be as similar to the target as possible.

Since the both the chipset and CPU of the Amiga are now footnotes in computing history... a VM is basically pointless, just run an emulator... UAE does give RTG software access to the native hardware either via OpenGL or DirectX.

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You wouldn't run UAE on a classic Amiga, unless you were some kind of masochist. I tried it once, it was hilarious.

Yup, me too :-) PPC also... painfully slow...

However, virtualizing the amiga on an amiga is not much different IMO as running Shapeshifter was. That actually worked quite well.

Well, the AmigaOS required far too much access to the hardware to virtualize properly... and without memory protection... utterly pointless

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Come on Matt, don't be boring :p

Sorry, you are quite right... I'm just getting old

If AmigaOS3.x could run on the Draco, then in theory it doesn't need to bang the hardware quite as much as you suggest.

ok, good point... I think I mean that the Amiga hardware wouldn't virtualize well... but the more I think about it, it just seems like a REALLY heavy way of multitasking, and the Amiga already has a beautifully lightweight way to do that already