Kip Macy writes:
> Based on L4Linux, I believe that the amount of work required for
> porting a PV OS is much less than creating a new "personality" for a
> microkernel. That said, isn't a hypervisor really a microkernel with
> device and virtual memory abstraction API?
OS personalities were a p
> You can use microkernels[1] for almost the same thing. It's what we do
> at Technische Universität Dresden.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Julian Stecklina
>
> The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
> they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]
Peter Jeremy writes:
> On 2009-May-20 08:30:09 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>Xen also lets you write "other" OSes without needing to care about the
>>hardware. One of my friends bootstrapped a toy OS of his inside Xen.
>>He can then run it on any and all Xen boxes, unmodified, regardless of
>>the
VIMAGE and jails are OS-level virtualization, orthogonal to Xen.
I want to run Xen so I can build and test Ogg Frog[1] on each of the
target platforms I plan to support. I built a fancy Xeon box so that I
could even build and test on all the platforms simultaneously.
I also operate a coup
On 2009-May-20 08:30:09 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>Xen also lets you write "other" OSes without needing to care about the
>hardware. One of my friends bootstrapped a toy OS of his inside Xen.
>He can then run it on any and all Xen boxes, unmodified, regardless of
>the underlying hardware. That re
2009/5/20 Saifi Khan :
> Could you please share 'your insight' on the
> 'set of virtualization problems' that Xen solves ?
Xen lets you run multiple versions of modified OSes on the same box.
Each OS for the most part can treat its small pool of resources as its
own. It hides the underlying hardw
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> People seem to think "virtualisation" is "virtualisation". It isn't.
> It depends on what kind(s) of problems you're trying to solve. Xen
> solves a certain set of virtualisation problems.
>
Could you please share 'your insight' on the
'set of virtu
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan :
> . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some
> point in time or would be happy to be domU ?
If Kip (and other Xen-clueful people get funding) - and there's time -
then I bet so.
> . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the
> slides (i
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan :
> . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some
> point in time or would be happy to be domU ?
I cannot speak for the developers but at BSDCan it was stated that
dom0 would be a large chunk of job that deserves funding. The
developers are interested.
> .
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what
> is and isn't supported at this time.
>
> Adrian
>
> 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan :
> > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd w
I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what
is and isn't supported at this time.
Adrian
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan :
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> I've started documenting (mostly for my own mem
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my
> experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment
> together.
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery
>
> Notable bits: pygrub works. :)
>
> Adrian
Hi:
What is t
I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my
experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment
together.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery
Notable bits: pygrub works. :)
Adrian
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