vkernel & GSoC, some questions

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

16.03.08, 09:30, "David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org>:
> >    Add virtual kernel (vkernel) support to FreeBSD for the i386 and amd64 
> > architectures.
> > 
> > The vkernel support in question is the one found in DragonFlyBSD.
> Not being up on DragonFlyBSD, can you better describe what "vkernel" is?

vkernel is similar to User Mode Linux technology. You can boot vkernel as a
user mode process. I think it will be good to have similar in FreeBSD.
There are several links:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2007-01/msg00237.html
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/articles/vkernel/vkernel.shtml

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov