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Linux: 64-bit Lguest

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 7, 2007

“‘This is a formal announcement of Lguest64,’ Steven Rostedt
said in an email posted to the Linux Kernel mailing list. He
explained:

“‘Most are aware of the little puppies (lguest32, or simply
lguest, or in some circles ‘rustyvisor’). But this time the puppies
ate a bit too much. No more lean and mean puppies, now we got big
fat lazy ones. Running on the hardware that’s too lazy to do full
virtualization. Yes, lguest now runs on x86_64…!'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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