Thanks Marcus.  I've already moved back to Xen now, and am working around its 
shortcomings.  But I'll look at these other projects as I believe in 
microkernel.


On Thursday 02 April 2015 13:55:03 Marcus Hähnel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> you may want to have a look at the L4Re userland and the Fiasco.OC 
> microkernel[0] or the Genode[1] system. They are less geared to be pure 
> research prototypes and have been designed with flexibility, 
> extensibility and commercial applicability in mind. The Fiasco.OC 
> microkernel and its userland have a scientific background[2] but have 
> already proven to be usable in commercial products[e.g. 3] and also 
> support multiple instances of Linux[4] and/or Android[5] without 
> requiring writing the code first. The Genode system even supports 
> VirtualBox on top of the Nova kernel[6].
> 
> They may provide you a quicker start to a usable product.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> - Marcus Haehnel
> 
> 
> [0] http://l4re.org
> [1] http://genode.org
> [2] 
> http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/peterschild09_vtds_virtual_machines_jailed.pdf
> [3] https://www.genua.de/en/solutions/security-laptop-cyber-top.html
> [4] http://l4linux.org
> [5] http://l4android.org
> [6] http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/14.02
> 
> On 2015-03-26 18:37, [email protected] wrote:
> > After weeks trying to make Xen pass through an Intel IGP to the VM,
> > I've finally found that it simply doesn't work.  That's enough time
> > spent on that....
> > 
> > My goal is to use a microkernel for hypervisor, which supports up to
> > 10 VMs that perform various functions.  The most challenging one is a
> > VM which plays video using hardware accel of the integrated graphics
> > processor, and sends and receives commands over a USB device.  All my
> > VMs will be CentOS.
> > 
> > From the FAQ I infer that it requires coding skills to do anything
> > more than  install base seL4.  True?  If not, have others set up an
> > seL4 machine with multiple VMs and written how they did it and how it
> > went?
> > 
> > I should note that I am not a coder, although I am well experienced
> > with Linux admin and scripting.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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