From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 21:39:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BD010656DB for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:39:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AA58FC08 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 8B3A51E00846; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:39:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p07LahAt033216; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:36:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id p07LahSQ033215; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:36:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:36:43 +0100 To: Brandon Gooch Message-ID: <20110107213643.GA32645@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20100418191752.GA72730@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20110107194516.GA28544@triton8.kn-bremen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Xiaodong Yi , Juergen Lock Subject: Re: Testing Luvalley with FreeBSD as dom0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:39:12 -0000 On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:02:57PM -0600, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:00:01PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Xiaodong Yi wrote: > >> > >> > I am very glad that Juergen introduced Luvalley to the FreeBSD > >> > society. We hope you like the idea of it. And we will be much more > >> > pleased for the feedbacks. Luvally now is only experimental and may be > >> > not stable or low performance. But I will continue working to improve > >> > it. > >> > > >> > >> Just wondering if there's been any progress here?  Is it still under > >> development on FreeBSD? > > > > I probably should have posted here when Xiaodong Yi told me a while > > ago that he no longer has time for Luvalley.  (That mail was some > > time after I asked him about his last sourceforge release which I > > couldn't get to run on my hw.) > > > >  So I guess you can say this project is now looking for new > > `volunteers'... > > > >  :/ > >        Juergen > > Could Luvalley become BSD licensed? I think parts of its code are based on the Linux kvm kernel bits so I guess those authors would have to agree too besides the Luvalley author... (The linux kernel is only gplv2 tho not gplv3 and it seems Linus wants it to stay that way.) Oh and also IANAL but since the Luvalley `kernel' (hypervisor) runs on bare metal and boots any dom0 kernel/os (i.e. Linux or FreeBSD) pretty much the same way how a pc bios boots them I somehow doubt it would `taint' the FreeBSD kernel. (And the dom0 kernel also doesn't need any patches, you only then run the Luvalley version of qemu-kvm in the dom0's userland.) HTH, Juergen