Re: [ros-dev] reactos in lguest

[Aleksey Bragin]

What would be benefits, bytheway? I am interested in different kernel  
architectures, so it would be useful to see how usable can be ReactOS  
ported to lguest in future, etc.

WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.

On Sep 17, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Olaf Siejka wrote:

>   Still, this calls for porting effort, for which i dont
> see any  
>  volounteers.
>
>  Regards
>
>  2010/9/17 Enrico Weigelt <weigelt(a)metux.de>
>  * Olaf Siejka <caemyr(a)gmail.com> schrieb:
> >   I dont see it possible. lguest, even though its a
> > hypervisor,   
>  doesnt offer
> >   full virtualisation. It requires a Linux kernel
> > as guest, one   
>  that supports
> >   lguest. 
>  Not entirely true. There's also a Plan9 port for running in lguest.
>  AFAIK it needs a bunch of precautions (eg. coping with the fact
>  that on bootup, it's already in protected mode, etc) and call
>  certain vectors for privileged operations instead of doing them
>  directly.
>
>
>  cu
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