6 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersusermode linux on BSD?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| David Gilbert | Mar 10, 2004 5:40 am | |
| Massimiliano Stucchi | Mar 10, 2004 6:06 am | |
| Robert Watson | Mar 10, 2004 6:15 am | |
| Nikita Danilov | Mar 10, 2004 6:20 am | |
| dod...@sitetronics.com | Mar 10, 2004 6:23 am | |
| Daniel O'Connor | Mar 10, 2004 2:46 pm |
| Subject: | usermode linux on BSD? | |
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| From: | Daniel O'Connor (doco...@gsoft.com.au) | |
| Date: | Mar 10, 2004 2:46:56 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:43, Robert Watson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, David Gilbert wrote:
Has anyone made an attempt to run usermode linux on FreeBSD? Is the issue-list long?
There was a neat paper at BSDCon 2003 discussing running usermode FreeBSD on Linux, and it talked about what would be necessary to make usermode FreeBSD run on FreeBSD. You can find the paper off the USENIX web site, or perhaps via Google. I think it was a relatively small set of changes.
I think this is it -> http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/eiraku/eiraku_html/
They used NetBSD, and modified it's ptrace() in a pretty minor fashion. They also hacked out the BIOS calls from a FreeBSD 4.7 to make it easier to run (they don't have a VM8086 emulator :)
This is some pretty neat stuff!
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