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Date:      Fri, 22 May 2009 12:46:20 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
Message-ID:  <3c1674c90905221246x6323cd25w99664334c6a6a2c4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87pre1nvl9.fsf@tabernacle.lan>
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> You can use microkernels[1] for almost the same thing. It's what we do
> at Technische Universit=E4t Dresden.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Julian Stecklina
>
> The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
> they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] =A0There is a sexy new microhypervisor to be released Real Soon
> =A0 =A0 Now(tm) too:
> =A0 =A0 http://eurosys09dw.systems.ethz.ch/steinberg.pdf
>

Based on L4Linux, I believe that the amount of work required for
porting a PV OS is much less than creating a new "personality" for a
microkernel. That said, isn't a hypervisor really a microkernel with
device and virtual memory abstraction API?

Cheers,
Kip



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