Adding Virtual kernel support to FreeBSD

[Julian Elischer]

Mehul Chadha wrote:
> A lot of effort to have a virtual kernel running on top of a real kernel.
> 
> We will be dividing the project in a number of phases.
> 
>  We would be first concentrating on running the processes on virtual 
> kernel (We are working for the algorithms), filesystems interface , next 
> the libc interface that is the functions like printk in virtual kernel 
> need to be mapped to printf of real kernel. Once we are through with 
> this then we will start working with networks through the tun/tap 
> interface . Any Thoughts??
> 

If dragonfly's vkernel support is now what you mean then what DO you mean?


> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org 
> <mailto:alfred at freebsd.org>> wrote:
> 
>     * Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org <mailto:julian at elischer.org>>
>     [080911 11:18] wrote:
>      > Mehul Chadha wrote:
>      > >hello all,
>      > >                 We are a group of 3 students doing their
>     graduation in
>      > >computer science. We were thinking of implementing the virtual
>     kernel
>      > >support to freeBSD similar to what user mode linux does . We
>     would be very
>      > >thankful if we can have some suggestions and advice from your side.
>      >
>      > dragonflyBSD which is derived from freeBSD has this.
> 
>     Really??? :)
> 
>     What kind of porting effort would it take?
> 
>     -Alfred
> 
>