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osed125 said: Do you know the concept of virtualization? (Sorry if that's not the right term in English, I just made an exact translation from Spanish) It basically simulates a hardware to emulate another OS and execute it in isolation. You can execute different OS at the same time with a software call Virtual Box and both instances don't have any connection (at least not to my knowledge). I imagine the Wii U is using the same principle with the Wii mode. This is also speculation though. |
You can access the host OS from the virtual OS and vice-versa with VirtalBox or any other virtualization system... you can't access at same time (there are CPU instructions for that too in AMD and Intel but that's more cooporative use).
Even in the virtualization the instaces have connection because share the same hardware... you can access from the Host OS the memory used by the virtual OS for example.
And VirtualBox is software virtualization... so all the things are shared between both system... the hardware virtualizations have some restrictions and more security.
Plus I don't know if Wii U have virtualization or just dual-boot because for virtualization you don't need to boot the first OS... and if it's virtualizations what kind it is.
