Mohammed Gamal, le Fri 21 Mar 2008 19:35:15 +0200, a écrit : > My questions is, how feasible would be the idea to create something > like that for the GNU/Hurd, should this support be added to the core > kernel, or should it be supported by userspace applications (e.g > through an emulator like QEMU).
Ring0 support is needed any way, even if userspace applications are used to drive it. > In addition to that, would it be better to port KVM to the Hurd (I > don't know how much Linux-dependent it is as I haven't looked at much > of the code yet), or should that virtualization be written from > scratch? KVM was not designed to be portable, so I guess it would just be easier to start from scratch. Note, however, that for the emulation of devices, the same approach as KVM/Xen can be used, i.e. running a user-space qemu. Samuel
