> I have thought of the vkernel primarily as an aid to kernel development
> (where performance is not a prime concern), not as a virtualisation
> solution that will compete with Xen and VMWare. It's difficult to
> compete with thousands of men-hours paid by corporate funding.
>
> So far nobody
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Peter Jeremy wrote:
with the BIOS, and see BIOSes then respec to a new far cleaner API.
The
BIOS is the stinking pile of horseshit that has held back OS development
for the last 15 years.
I'd go further and say that BIOSes are getting worse: Back in the AT-clone
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:16:41PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>This reminds me of XEN. Basically instead of trying to rewrite
>instructions or do 100% hardware emulation it sounds like they are
>providing XEN-like functionality where the target OS is aware it is
>running inside a
Some interesting reading for anyone who cares:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/89980079%2C480988%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/24361/http:zSzzSzwww.usenix.orgzSzpublicationszSzlibraryzSzproceedingszSzusenix01zSzsugermanzSzsugerman.pdf/venkitachalam01virtualizing.
:Matt, I'm sorry I'm not trying to hijack this thread but isn't the vkernel
:approach very similar to VMWare's hosted architecture products (such as
:Fusion for the Mac and Client Workstation for windows)?
:
:As I understand it, they have a regular process like vkernel called
:vmware-vmx which pro
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Basically DragonFly has a syscall API that allows a userland process
>to create and completely control any number of VM spaces, including
>the ability to pass execution control to a VM space and get it back,
>
:
:Given the fact that there are not as many developers as needed, what would be
a practical purpose of vkernel?
:
:UML is typically used to debug drivers and/or for hosting. Now that Linux
about to have or already has container technology, hosting on UML makes little
sense.
The single lar
Basically DragonFly has a syscall API that allows a userland process
to create and completely control any number of VM spaces, including
the ability to pass execution control to a VM space and get it back,
and control memory mappings within that VM space (and in the virtual
kern
What's vkernel's or modern UML multithreaded performance compared to native?
I have not been reading hackers in a long time and have no idea what's going
on... Please excuse my butting in...
Given the fact that there are not as many developers as needed, what would be a
practical purpose of vke
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