[movitz-devel] Re: implementing the process abstraction in movitz

[Scott Parish]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:58:09PM +0100, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

> It seems to me that if the goal is Linux, it would be much better to
> approach it from the virtual machine point of view: provide a hardware
> abstraction layer, and adapt UML, User-Mode-Linux (or Linux using
> User-Mode-linux as a model) to your hardware abstraction virtual
> machine.  At most, you'll have to write a couple of Linux
> drivers. (Some inspiration could be got from MOL, Macintosh-On-Linux
> too).
> 
> Then it'll be possible to port any OS to this Movitz Virtual Machine.
> 
> This could simplify the driver problem too, since the virtualizer
> could just arbitrate (some) hardware access to the guest OSes. We'd
> need drivers only for the hardware used directly by Movitz.

Basically, rewrite Xen (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/).

sRp

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