On 10/4/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
What if the customer wants root access, the ability to load own kernel
modules or create his own set of zones? Solaris zones are a very
limited design as you do not have support for zones within 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.
It does not help if the kernel module sens the kernel to hell.
> - 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.
Okok, but it does not help me when my stupid code kills the kernel.
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