* Lguest (Was re: [9fans] Xen 3.1 w/ Plan 9 domU)
@ 2007-07-08 19:43 Joel C. Salomon
2007-07-09 5:30 ` ron minnich
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From: Joel C. Salomon @ 2007-07-08 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On 7/4/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> folks, just FYI, for the THX project, I have looked hard and am fixing
> on the new lguest hypervisor as the final plan. Please google lguest
> and see what you think. It's 5K lines of code, the guest support code
> is trivial, and I think overall this is going to be the easiest thing
> to do. The work should actually not take too long this time. Xen can
> be hard to get your brain around.
Looks like a patch on the Linux kernel to run as a hypervisor. Is
that how you intend to run it, or are you planning on porting the code
to Plan 9, making p9 the hypervisor? Or am I totally misunderstanding
the blurbs on <http://lguest.ozlabs.org/>?
--Joel
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* Re: Lguest (Was re: [9fans] Xen 3.1 w/ Plan 9 domU)
2007-07-08 19:43 Lguest (Was re: [9fans] Xen 3.1 w/ Plan 9 domU) Joel C. Salomon
@ 2007-07-09 5:30 ` ron minnich
2007-07-10 7:05 ` lucio
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From: ron minnich @ 2007-07-09 5:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
I'm porting plan 9 to lguest. making plan9 support lguest would not be
impossible, but since the whole issue here is drivers, I don't see any
reason to do it.
ron
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* Re: Lguest (Was re: [9fans] Xen 3.1 w/ Plan 9 domU)
2007-07-09 5:30 ` ron minnich
@ 2007-07-10 7:05 ` lucio
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From: lucio @ 2007-07-10 7:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> I'm porting plan 9 to lguest. making plan9 support lguest would not be
> impossible, but since the whole issue here is drivers, I don't see any
> reason to do it.
Well, it's a chicken and egg situation. If adding to lguest the
ability to use the standardised Plan 9 driver interface actually
simplifies lguest (it may not, of course, but one can wish), then the
exercise becomes much more worthwhile and lguest developers may then
prefer to use Plan 9 as the platform. And develop drivers for it.
I have a feeling some of that is beginning to filter into Xen,
although their priorities are necessarily elsewhere presently and for
the foreseeable future.
++L
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