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@metux.de>
* Olaf Siejka <caemyr@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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