Ketil Froyn wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I was just curious about something... Would it be possible to make an
> 'operating system' that lets you run concurrent OSes on top of it?
> eg, a freemOS that is the very bottom layer controlling everything,
> and then you run for example windows and linux on top of it, concurrently.
Technically speaking that is what freemware is intended to do, in a
limited sort of way. If you can virtualize all the necessary hardware,
display, disks, network adapter, memory, etc you can effectivly "share"
the resources among the guest OS's and have many instances of differant
OS's running concurently on the same hardware. freemware is intended to
provide a virtual enviroment that looks exactly like a hardware
enviroment under which many differant OS's can run.
>
> Then, one could for example have 2 gfx-cards, and 2 disks, and have one
> for each OS, hiding one and making the other one available, and it would
> be like running 2 slower machines at the same time, if one wants. Of
> course, one shouldn't *need* to have 2 of everything, it could just be
> a possibility.
Well... That's not really virtualization. You are talking about simply
being able to share the motherboard and have various hardware attached.
This is not practical for hardware reasons, with PC hardware at least.
>
> I'm not even sure this is technically feasible, I just had an idea :)
I'm sure it *could* be done, but I doubt it is worth it w/o making
massive chanes in the standard off the shelf hardware...
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