From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:16:58 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <18c1a2bdb1b9f3c1f9d23182387b5dd6@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <13426df10901070855t49869a03k3db4fb51b69373a3@mail.gmail.com> References: <9D53E35A-6A8A-43C7-A1A7-98D566FC061A@sun.com> <94fd010cc7b6b876b4fb7da01f109fd0@quanstro.net> <13426df10901070855t49869a03k3db4fb51b69373a3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b808c4a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed Jan 7 11:58:04 EST 2009, rminnich@gmail.com wrote: > The underlying assumption of motivation for this discussion is that > jailing (or whatever we want to call it) is somehow a good thing. > Given that every CPU we care about comes with virtualization hardware, > I just can't see the point of jails -- seems like an idea whose time > has gone, kind of like 8086 segments. > > If we give up on using RFNOMNT as a jailing mechanism, do the concerns > really make any sense? > > ron arm has virtualization? - erik