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Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 19:35:23 -0700
From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] pre-virtualization vs para-virtuatlization
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Not sure if anyone is interested but some of the L4 researchers are
doing some interesting work with pre-virtualization as an alternative
to para-virtualization provided by Xen or rHype.

http://l4ka.org/projects/virtualization/afterburn/whitepaper.pdf
http://l4ka.org/projects/virtualization/afterburn/

There is also interesting work on device driver re-use across address space=
s:
http://l4ka.org/projects/virtualization/drivers.php

Basically they end up using Linux as a device driver repository. =20

http://l4ka.org/publications/paper.php?docid=3D1208

One could make some pretty crazy OS "ports" with this stuff I reckon :)

Dave