Anyone have URLs for Mach and Disco... and what ever others were mentioned.
I am debating whether or not to look into this. Like my Bochs-RFB project,
it would probably just be something I work on when Im bored. Don't worry
that is quite often.
X-Odus wrote:
> I was playing with VMWare and Plex86 (what would work at least) the
> other day. I got to thinking a lot about why they run slower than a
> native OS. It is because they have to go through another Operating
> system to get to the hard ware. Why Run one OS just to run another.
> Well, what if Plex86 _WAS_ the OS. A small one, that just creates VMs
> to run other operating systems. Using CTRL + SHIFT + (F1-F12) to switch
> between VMs. If the OS was optimized for Running Other OS's, than the
> speed would increase dramatically.
>
> The VMOS could be based of Linux or some other Unix system. Using the
> Ext2 partition to manage configuration, keeping the file system
> structure. This way the VMs could be configured to use a file (ex:
> /home/user/hd.img) or an actually device (ex: /dev/hda) for disk I/O.
>
> Memory management and resource sharing should be no different than the
> Current way that Plex86 is handling it.
>
> What is everyone elses thoughts or comments on the topic?
>
> --Don Becker
