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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <wesley@terpstra.ca>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] MacOS X port?
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:05:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050418140559.GA4219@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050418113114.GA7159@muffin>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> Hi, I know that user-mode-linux has been ported to linux/ppc already.
> What I was wondering is if there was work underway to port it to MacOS X?
> That is to say, running a linux kernel from the BSD-ish MacOS X userland.
> 
> This would be really cool; it would mean MacOS X users could run linux
> applications 'natively' under UML with X forwarding to MacOS X's X server. 
> I couldn't imagine a more ideal configuration. :-)
> 
> How hard would such an undertaking be?

That's an OS port, which is very different from an arch port.  There is work
underway (see the os abstraction patches at 
http://user-mode-linux.sf.net/patches.html) to make UML OS-portable.

arch/um/include/os.h will show you what you currently have to implement for
a new OS.  This is subject to change since we have only moved the existing
OS-specific stuff and not tried to rationalize it yet.

				Jeff


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-18 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-18 11:31 [uml-devel] MacOS X port? Wesley W. Terpstra
2005-04-18 14:05 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2005-04-19 15:58   ` Blaisorblade

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