On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:42 AM, BGB wrote:
>> OSes on top of this hypervisor.
>>
>> If it tickles you fancy, then by all means use it to run a sand-boxed Unix.
>> Undoubtedly someone will; witness the cool hack to run Linux in the browser,
>> accomplished by writing an x86 emulator in Javascript
>> (http://bellard.org/jslinux/).
>>
>
> interesting...
> less painfully slow than I would have expected from the description...
>
> I wasn't thinking exactly like "run an emulator, run OS in emulator", but
> more like, a browser plugin which looked and acted similar to a small Unix
> (with processes and so on, and a POSIX-like API, and a filesystem), but would
> likely be different in that it would "mount" content from the website as part
> of its local filesystem (probably read-only by default), and possibly each
> process could have its own local VFS.
>
I know. I was just saying that if someone has written a Javascript x86
emulator to run Linux in the browser, that it's a near-certainty that someone
will eventually use NaCl to host a POSIX-like environment in the browser.
Cheers,
Josh
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