On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Chris Turner <c.tur...@199technologies.org> wrote: > Sylvestre Gallon wrote: >> >> I'm writing about the google summer of code 2010. Indeed, I would be >> very interested in being a part of it and would love to be involved in >> the xen project. > > Idea w/r/t virtualization - > > Wouldn't it be way cooler if dragonfly had it's own KVM-like implementaiton > that was implemented in a vkernel-like fashion? > > started digging around in the VT-x instruction set a while back, > didn't get anywhere (Aach time!) - with the goal of writing a kernel module > that added a syscall that added 2 numbers in a separate > virtual machine.. > > which could then form the basis of bootstrapping further.. > > seems to me like the VMspace API could be remapped to work against > the virtual machine instructions with not too much glue-code + ASM > stubs.. > > etc, etc... > > rather than supporting xen, which seems to be a much more complicated > integration.. > > this is all highly speculative, however.. > > hmm. >
It could be a very interesting project, but I don't think that this project and the xen ports are exclusive, For the moment I have just had a quick look at linux kvm and at VTX instructions. It's not that I am not up to it or that I think that I am not able to do it, but I will probably need more help and more mentoring to implement a kvm-like subsystem than to port dragonflybsd to xen. Cheers, -- Sylvestre Gallon
