Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:15:28 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Mehul Chadha <mehulc87@gmail.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Virtual kernel support to FreeBSD Message-ID: <48CA0900.4030705@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <251d650c0809112244w1995bc26r4f6622080034051d@mail.gmail.com> References: <251d650c0809111026h1b16f5d2u77e8d611ce1b39f7@mail.gmail.com> <48C95D6D.80204@elischer.org> <20080912050352.GB16977@elvis.mu.org> <251d650c0809112244w1995bc26r4f6622080034051d@mail.gmail.com>
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Mehul Chadha wrote: > A lot of effort to have a virtual kernel running on top of a real kernel. > > We will be dividing the project in a number of phases. > > We would be first concentrating on running the processes on virtual > kernel (We are working for the algorithms), filesystems interface , next > the libc interface that is the functions like printk in virtual kernel > need to be mapped to printf of real kernel. Once we are through with > this then we will start working with networks through the tun/tap > interface . Any Thoughts?? > If dragonfly's vkernel support is now what you mean then what DO you mean? > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org > <mailto:alfred@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > * Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org <mailto:julian@elischer.org>> > [080911 11:18] wrote: > > Mehul Chadha wrote: > > >hello all, > > > We are a group of 3 students doing their > graduation in > > >computer science. We were thinking of implementing the virtual > kernel > > >support to freeBSD similar to what user mode linux does . We > would be very > > >thankful if we can have some suggestions and advice from your side. > > > > dragonflyBSD which is derived from freeBSD has this. > > Really??? :) > > What kind of porting effort would it take? > > -Alfred > >
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