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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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFF76EBB6C4792D435E29E506 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Matthew Dillon wrote: > In anycase, as usual I rattle on. If FreeBSD is interested I recom= mend > simply looking at the cool features I added to DragonFly's kernel t= o > make virtual kernels possible. It's really just three major items:= > Signal mailboxes, a new MAP_VPAGETABLE for mmap, and the new vmspac= e_*() > system calls for managing VM spaces. Once those features were in p= lace > it didn't take long for me to create a 'vkernel' platform that link= ed > 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. --------------enigFF76EBB6C4792D435E29E506 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----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----- --------------enigFF76EBB6C4792D435E29E506--
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