Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market

mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Xbox literally runs a custom build of Windows, that runs in a Virtual Machine, on top of another custom Windows based hypervisor. Then games are run in a separate VM.

  All they’d have to do is port the hypervisor to different hardware, then the rest would run on top just fine.

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  • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Really, games run that far away from metal? Amazing, I didn’t have a clue.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Welcome to modern DRM.

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    • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Iirc it’s fairly lightweight without much overhead. It’s not as heavy as running VM your PC.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you have a source for this? Every time I’ve gone looking for details about the Xbox I’ve not found anything comprehensive.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you have a source for this? Every time I’ve gone looking for details about the Xbox I’ve not found anything comprehensive.

      It’s spelled out in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software#Xbox_S… and you can even ask Microsoft Copilot for details and it happily tells you.

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    • w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Quick search …https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/xbox-one-8450/why-does-the-xbox-one-have-a-hypervisor-and-what-i-1437760/

      Just search for Xbox hypervisor

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