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> References: <d763ac660905180553x5c7b3c5bq61acab3d28810a24@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905190807290.887@localhost> <d763ac660905182052t294e588bu593f1d660aef8b52@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905190944510.1090@localhost> <d763ac660905190631p2ff604b0gaa12ee3026b91ebc@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905192149580.6589@localhost> <d763ac660905191730n2d6313edhac6c866de20f137d@mail.gmail.com> <20090521215221.GA98253@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <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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