Kernel Virtual Machine

[Luke Crawford]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Danny Braniss wrote:
> but all this is OT, now realy, is something happenig/talked about doing
> something in this area, or is it still uncharted waters here?

Kip Macy has done good work on the Xen port for FreeBSD, and Xen does 
mostly the same things as this 'kvm'.  (I am not saavy to the licensing 
issues, but NetBSD has Xen support, and the XenSource people seem both 
reasonable and accessible, so it seems like any licensing issues could be 
resolved.)

http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeList.cgi?CMD=changes&FSPC=//depot/projects/xen3/...

I've got it compiling unprivlidged (XenU) kernels with a  -current from a 
couple months back, and it works with a Xen 3.0.2 Xen host running linux 
just fine.  (from what I understand, the Xen0 stuff doesn't work yet)  I 
have XenUs running right now from this;  I don't think I would call them 
'production' yet, but they mostly work.

there were some changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 that broke it, though. 
I'm going to bang on it this weekend, but it's likely that I'm not good 
enough to figure out that problem by myself.  I do have good test systems 
and access to all the relevant code, and I'm happy to do the 'bang on it 
until it compiles' type work,  if someone smarter wants to help with the 
3.0.2-3.0.3 issues.