On 1/3/19 7:54 AM, Norman Feske wrote:
Hi John,
* What are your ambitions for 2018?
I have goals in three basic categories:
1. Desktop. This has two parts. The easy one is to switch to Genode as
my VirtualBox host. But I also would like to have the VirtualBox Guest
Additions for using Genode within a VM.
Would this qualify for the roadmap?
the topic fits well with the overall theme that is emerging. I would
probably speak more generally about fostering the integration of Genode
with existing protocols and infrastructure. E.g., Emery's recent work
with 9p [1] would also fall in this category. Also, the use of Xpra
would be fitting [2].
[1] https://github.com/ehmry/ninep
[2] https://github.com/zorodc/genode-world/commits/xpra
Oh dear, those are interesting also. It's getting hard to keep up with
it all! ;^)
That said, I would not go as far as making definite promises.
Speaking of the Guest Additions for Genode, I can imagine a nice picture
where Sculpt could offer a VBox shared folder as storage option in
addition to the detected AHCI/NVMe devices and the RAM fs. This way, the
user could host the Sculpt storage in a plain directory on a non-Genode
host system and deploy Sculpt within VirtualBox by accessing those
files. The integration would be quite seamless.
Yes, that would be very convenient.
I haven't thought this all the way through, but do you have any thoughts
on handling mounted directories along side partitions, e.g., in
Leitzentrale? I assume there would have to be some changes, but how
major would they be?
--
John J. Karcher
devu...@alternateapproach.com
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