Re: GSoC project about virtualization using Hurd mechanisms

[Lluis]

El Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:48:26AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net ens deleit� 
amb les seg�ents paraules:
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> Well, for one -- as I said -- the hypervisor could be completely 
> transparent, just emulating the "real" device, so the subhurd doesn't 
> even know it's not talking to the kernel. This is more complicated on the 
> hypervisor side, but has the advantage of requiring no modifications in 
> the guest system using it.
[...]
> So unless I am missing something important now, my previous statement was 
> false. Having the hypervisor (or the BPF server) implemented as a 
> translator should not make things more complicated in any way :-)

And using a device hypervisor can have very nice properties for mutually 
communicating virtualized environments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiperSocket

Read you,
  Lluis

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