G'Day, As a side effect of this, will interrupt routing need to be fixed? May I assume this is a Xen DomU port only and not a Dom0 ? Also, I am looking at doing the NUMA project (investigation stage) so that could work with a Xen port nicely. I, myself look forward to a Xen port !
Cheers, Edward. On 24 March 2010 07:40, Sylvestre Gallon <ccna....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- -- Edward O'Callaghan http://www.auroraux.org/ eocallaghan at auroraux dot org --- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments
