Hi, On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:01:26PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> I wonder, is there a chance of getting GNU Mach to run as an > user-mode application under a different (e. g., GNU/Linux, or > Mach-based GNU/Hurd itself) system? We have discussed the possibility of running the Hurd on top of some other system in the past. (See http://tri-ceps.blogspot.com/2005/09/welcome-to-hell.html for example.) IMHO, it would be immensly useful; and a user-mode Mach is certainly one possible way to achieve this. Running Mach on top of a Mach-based system seems rather pointless though: Mach itself is designed in such a fashion that it should be possible to provide a fully virtualized environment, looking just like a "native" Mach instance, where you can run another Hurd instance -- or in fact any Mach-based system. Zheng Da is currently working on enhancing the subhurd mechanism to actually provide this ability. -antrik-
