Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:06:10 +0900 From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: jgordeev@dir.bg, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vkernel & GSoC, some questions Message-ID: <d763ac660803162006j66b5cdd4ob12e8c80829baa3b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080316122108.S44049@fledge.watson.org> References: <47DBC800.8030601@dir.bg> <160451205650165@webmail50.yandex.ru> <20080316122108.S44049@fledge.watson.org>
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On 16/03/2008, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > Another avenue to consider is the Linux KVM virtualization technology, which > is seeing a high level of interest in the Linux community and sounds > increasingly mature and well-exercised. It would also offer interesting > migration benefits for Linux users wanting to try FreeBSD, allowing them to > trivially create new FreeBSD installs under their existing Linux install. We > had an SoC project last year but I'm not sure what the outcome was; it would > be useful to give Fabio a ping and see how things are going. Obviously, > anyone doing this project would need to manage the license issues involved > carefully. Wasn't part of the original KVM idea to support a "hypervisor" interface to a parent, sort of Xen-like, providing interrupt, VM and inter-VM "IPC" hooks? I remember seeing this stuff a while back but for some reason all I read about KVM - outside of what Redhat are doing with it and Xen now - focuses on hardware virtualisation. A BSD-licenced KVM hypervisor + FreeBSD kernel might be an interesting project. I'm pretty sure Rusty wrote a very very lightweight KVM hypervisor as a demonstration which may serve as a starting point for things. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - adrian@freebsd.org
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