On 2/2/07, John Floren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can I get a summary of what tiny horrible xen does at this point, and what I'd need to do to test it? Might be interested.
Tiny Horrible Xen -- hey! THX -- that was an accident! Sorry. Tiny Horrible Xen -- THX -- is a minimal -- BTW, only in the linux world can you call this minimal: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 12405032 440620 11334264 4% /xentest Sorry. Tiny Horrible Xen -- THX -- is a thing Aki and I cooked up, using Richard Miller's port of Plan 9 to Xen 3. It is a minimal disk image with a minimal linux and minimal X11. It boots in a few seconds, direct to a /bin/bash prompt, since we don't run any linux shi --er, scripts. It has all the modules we can find compiled for it. It mounts ramfs over the writeable places -- /var/tmp, /tmp, etc. -- so the disk footprint will not grow. It does not yet run root read-only. Anyway, it has all the modules. It boots to a bash prompt, running one bash on each of 6 VTs. The goal is to use Linux as a huge driver layer for Plan 9, and have Linux do nothing else. We provide a native drawterm that runs in /dev/fb (thanks aki!). VNC works. we have the plan9ports rio on the linux side in /usr/bin. Xvnc works. So you can run an X desktop in a vnc window that looks like X. In all ways, linux, running as domain 0, is intended to be subordinate to Plan 9. You can't run native X11, since we don't provide those servers, This is intentional. The Plan 9 boots as a terminal and gets root from Somewhere On The Net. I use 9grid.net. I need to learn how to use CFS. Users wanted. ron
