User-mode FreeBSD?

Alex Merritt merritt.alex at gmail.com
Thu May 7 22:04:52 UTC 2015


On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On May 6, 2015, at 23:10, Seiya Nuta <nuta at seiya.me> wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > I want to run FreeBSD kernel in userland to use it as a library OS.
> >
> > Does FreeBSD kernel supports running in the userland like User Mode
> Linux?
>
> Not yet, but it's desired for a variety of reasons (see netbsd's RUMP
> infrastructure).
> Cheers!


DragonFly (FreeBSD derivative) supports a "virtual kernel" mode, like what
you are asking:

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/

I have not had the chance yet to use this myself.


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