Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 20:07:26 -0600 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Windows support for linux sounds like it would open the door to FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAOtMX2hqLv72vzczYyVYBrrq%2B5XqhzyxFrPXDR7x_5JEnQcZOw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e67d850d-5e93-6216-5368-0194c98dff32@FreeBSD.org> References: <e67d850d-5e93-6216-5368-0194c98dff32@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 7:12 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Just a though here ... Microsoft seems to be abandoning the linuxulator > approach for their "WSL" support on Windows 10 in favor of a more > hypervisor-like support: > > https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/ > > If I read this correctly, it may be possible for us to run a FreeBSD > kernel, perhaps it would be comparable as porting FreeBSD to yet another > hypervisor. Just speculation since no code has been released yet, but > surely something to keep an eye on. > > Cheers, > > Pedro. Interesting. It sounds like the Linux VM will have direct access to the host file system. Perhaps using something like 9P ?
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