Hi Lonnie, > My questions stem from the way that VirtualBox currently works on other > hosts in that you can have it look at the physical CDROM or an ISO on > the hard drive to boot from. Actually, I have been researching VB a bit > as well and it seems that there is also a way to make VB boot physical > partitions into a VM. This would be very good to have in the > NOVA-Genode-VirtualBox design as well.
design-wise, there is no show stopper to do that with our version as well. But some implementation bits are still missing. I am pretty sure that we will support this feature as it is very useful indeed. > As you know, one of my current goals is to basically make a full Type-1 > hypervisor from the NOVA-Genode-VirtualBox solution which is > functionally similar to the older NOVA v0.3 DEMO but instead have > VirtualBox for the VMM's and in a Genode Nitpicker GUI but still retain > the VERY NICE keyboard navigation from that demo to switch between VM's, > I could envision a very nice Type-1 hypervisor out of this combination > and could thrust Genode onto the hypervisor stage to compete with XEN, > Hyper-V, and VMware in this arena. > > Also currently it seems that Genode does not have a filemanager nor > desktop manager as well and I have also been looking at possibly trying > to port an existing open source linux or windows desktop manager over to > Genode as that would also greatly increase the popularity as well when > people can explore the OS a bit more as it evolves to a general OS. I agree. There is even some work in progress on my side. However, instead of porting an existing DE, I am investigating some new ideas. If you like, you may have a look at my line of work on the following branch. https://github.com/nfeske/genode/commits/ui Apart from this undertaking, it would be worthwhile to look into the possibility of porting an existing desktop environment. As we have Qt5 readily available, there exists at least a starting point. Cheers Norman -- Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske Genode Labs http://www.genode-labs.com · http://genode.org Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees_APR _______________________________________________ Genode-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main
