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Olaf, are you perhaps interested in having a more detailed look at what they're doing? <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/virtual_square_view-os.html> | All the following is based only on a first, and quick glance only. | | We may want to have a look at Virtual Square / View-OS, and evaluate in which | ways this is related / implemented / implementable / usable / useful in a Hurd | environment, and even ;-) strive to collaborate with them. | | [[I|tschwinge]] found this project very much by chance: on LinkedIn, they | posted a proposal for [DevRoom on Virtualization | Technologies](http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=27213&type=member&item=31720076) | for [[community/meetings/FOSDEM_2011]]. LinkedIn sends out such posts in very | opaque emails from time to time (probably they'd look less opaque with a HTML | mail user agent), and I even bothered to have a look at it, and follow the link | to the web page, and not delete it straightway. | | So, I had a quick look at the project: | | This seems to be an amalgamation / combination of various virtualization | mechanisms / projects / ideas. Virtualization is here meant in a broad sense, | including file system namespaces: our `chroot` / `settrans --chroot`; | networking configurations: our pfinet override stuff; system configuration: | subhurds?; current time, devices: likewise?; executable interpreter: our exec | server override stuff; "stat" virtualization: fakeroot; etc. -- They seem to | do a lot of stuff that we also try to do / could do / can do. | | In fact, this looks a bit like they're trying to bring some more of the Hurd's | [[hurd/concepts]] over to Unix / Linux, more than only the *usual VFS stuff* | (translators / FUSE). | | Perhaps start reading with the *slides* linked below. | | * <http://virtualsquare.org/> | | * <http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/> | | * Renzo Davoli, Michael Goldweber, [*View-OS: Change your View on | Virtualization*](http://www.cs.unibo.it/~renzo/view-os-lk2009.pdf), | Proc. of Linux Kongress, 2009 | | * [slides](http://www.cs.unibo.it/~renzo/view-os-lk2009-slides.pdf) Regards, Thomas
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