Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:36:34 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress? Message-ID: <460BF922.4050604@fer.hr> In-Reply-To: <200703291722.l2THM225092894@apollo.backplane.com> References: <395450.751174710071770.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com> <200703291722.l2THM225092894@apollo.backplane.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Matthew Dillon wrote: > In anycase, as usual I rattle on. If FreeBSD is interested I recommend > simply looking at the cool features I added to DragonFly's kernel to > make virtual kernels possible. It's really just three major items: > Signal mailboxes, a new MAP_VPAGETABLE for mmap, and the new vmspace_*() > system calls for managing VM spaces. Once those features were in place > it didn't take long for me to create a 'vkernel' platform that linked > against libc and used the new system calls. Virtual kernels are a cool idea, but I (and I believe practically anyone using FreeBSD for non-development work) would much rather see a Xen-like functionality (to be precise: ability to run foreign kernels and Windows; qemu is too slow) than just a variation of the native kernel. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGC/kvldnAQVacBcgRAvVyAJwPjWKnBmqUJo2oEgBukD0+zgEMWwCgi6WQ yyJPmqVWRGZ/dsGohVEUUB4= =bonr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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