On 10/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Did anyone thought about creating a framework and drivers to allow
> >running the Solaris kernel as normal user space process on top of
> >another Solaris instance, similar to UsermodeLinux? This would be
> >incredible use full for kernel development, debugging and maybe for
> >web hosting, too.
>
>
> While this is somewhat true, the Solaris kernel debugging framework
> is so far advanced compared to that on Linux, that a user mode
> process does not offer that much extra. The most difficult to debug
> are hangs which cannot be examined in the kernel debugger; typically,
> a usermode kernel does not run at such a low level so such hangs
> would not be reproducible.
It would still make development of some parts of the kernel easier
(for example: file systems. My attempts to get reiserfs ported are not
very fruitfully as each panic-reset-test-recompile-boot-panic cycle
takes ages on this old Ultra5). First at all you don't need a separate
box and *physical* access - you just run the process and that's it
(then I could use a V890 here instead of this lame Ultra5).
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_ Felix Schulte
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