From: Leo Caves <lsdc1@york.ac.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] xen port?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:01:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <237cdbb8.0403190517.1fb498c7@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040318091052.66c7ec8d@as-tech-l.apnic.net>
ggm@apnic.net (George Michaelson) wrote in message news:<20040318091052.66c7ec8d@as-tech-l.apnic.net>...
>
> can I get a brief sitrep on xen?
>
Xen looks interesting:
to save a google: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
Xen appears to be a mulitplexer for (appropriately ported) operating
systems(?) Plan9 and inferno are so light-weight, you can imagine
instances being created in a thread-like manner.
It might be an interesting route for providing secure services ("have
a whole machine - its yours!"), but quite a different model from (say)
a name-space protected sandbox on plan9/inferno.
Also, inferno (emu) is (already) a virtual OS. Would Xen offer any
advantages over multiple inferno instances hosted on a conventional
OS?
I am interested to hear opinion on what xen might offer in the Plan
9/inferno world-view.
Leo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-19 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-17 23:10 George Michaelson
2004-03-19 14:01 ` Leo Caves [this message]
2004-03-19 14:52 ` ron minnich
2004-03-20 4:36 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-03-20 5:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-20 14:34 ` ron minnich
2004-03-21 7:24 ` George Michaelson
2004-03-21 14:03 ` Russ Cox
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