Felix Schulte <[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.
Why do you believe that this makes sense?
- Webhosting is made secure and without performance penalties
using zones.
- SunOS supports loadable drivers since 1987, so in most cases
you do not need to reboot in order to replace a driver (that
is under development) by a newer version. In former times, it
was even common to develop SGI IRIX drivers under SunOS and to
later port them to IRIX which did give developers a shorter
overall development cycle.
- In contrary to Linux, Solaris does come with highly efficient
debugging support for the kernel, so you do not need a userland
kernel in order to be able to tebug at all.
Jörg
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