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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 21:58:16 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On 5/25/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> It hit me that the dom0 could export its tcp stack to dom1 as a
> paravirtual device. you could bypass the silly virtual enet emulation
> that way. Your /net would go right to the tcp, not via some odd
> pseudo-device. That would save some delay and overhead, and, not
> incidentally, would make my mp3 player smoother in dom1 ...

Same goes for graphics, dom0 could export a /dev/draw and /dev/cons
and you could have the hosted OS transparently in a window, even if it
had no virtual video hardware.

uriel