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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2006 15:56:15 +0530
From:      "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
To:        "R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@tamu.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Xnu, and 'L4BSD'
Message-ID:  <84dead720605110326t27ccc07ega07bbfae05fb2d3c@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <923FBA2F-24D6-4134-B349-A92666CC6F97@tamu.edu>

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> L4Linux exists, but it seems to be more of a means for testing out
> and developing the L4 microkernel, but would there be any practical
> reason to sandbox the FreeBSD kernel and force it to run as a user-
> land service on top of the L4::Pistachio kernel? (for example)

Well, you could do neat stuff like migrating VMs between machines
'on-the-fly', as described in the following paper:
 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/papers/2005-migration-nsdi-pre.=
pdf

Also, L4::Pistachio is BSD-licensed.

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FreeBSD Developer,     http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy



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