>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is plex86 expected to run on an SMP machine? I have a dual PII system>
>that reboots as soon as I try to start plex86. I can try to do some
>debugging (I need to install the KDB patch I guess) if it would be
>helpful.

>Also, is plex86 expected to run under UML? (User mode Linux) I would
>prefer not to trash my main machine doing development.

as of my knowledge NO
read this from the UML team paper

"Description of functionality 
The user-mode kernel is a port of the Linux kernel to the Linux system call
interface rather than to a hardware interface. The code that implements this
is under the arch interface, which is the internal kernel interface which
separates architecture-independent code from architecture-dependent code. This
kernel is a full Linux kernel, lacking only hardware-specific code such as
drivers. 

It runs the same user space as the native kernel. Processes run natively until
they need to enter the kernel. There is no emulation of user space code. 

Processes running inside it see a self-contained environment. They have no
access to any host resources other than those explicitly provided to the
virtual machine. "


so it doesnot provide us with ia32 specific regs as gdtr ldtr and so on which
are the corner stone of plex dev

thanks
joe







Mike
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