Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:16:37 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: usermode linux on BSD? Message-ID: <200403110916.37277.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040310091301.52867E-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040310091301.52867E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:43, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, David Gilbert wrote: > > Has anyone made an attempt to run usermode linux on FreeBSD? Is the > > issue-list long? > > There was a neat paper at BSDCon 2003 discussing running usermode FreeBSD > on Linux, and it talked about what would be necessary to make usermode > FreeBSD run on FreeBSD. You can find the paper off the USENIX web site, > or perhaps via Google. I think it was a relatively small set of changes. I think this is it -> http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/eiraku/eiraku_html/ They used NetBSD, and modified it's ptrace() in a pretty minor fashion. They also hacked out the BIOS calls from a FreeBSD 4.7 to make it easier to run (they don't have a VM8086 emulator :) This is some pretty neat stuff! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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