usermode linux on BSD?

[Daniel O'Connor]

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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