From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Arvind Kalyan <arvy@cse.kongu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OS Virtualization
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:12:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041001091219.C1973@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49219.172.16.42.200.1096629426.kourier@172.16.42.200>; from arvy@cse.kongu.edu on Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:47:06PM +0530
* Arvind Kalyan (arvy@cse.kongu.edu) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to load and run two linux kernels simultaneously; trying to
> demonstrate virtualization as a first step.
A first step towards what?
> Anyone have pointers to where I can start? I looked into plex, bochs,
> vmware, usermode linux.. they only simulate an architecture upon which
> another kernel runs.
These are hosted (well, vmware has non-hosted products too). But as a
first step, this could be sufficient.
> My intentions are to give control to both the kernels to directly control
> the hardware and do "context switch" between those two based on
> time-slice.
Even with a non-hosted virtual machine, you'll need a hypervisor. Take
a look at Xen (if you're using x86). Or get some time on an S/390 ;-))
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
thanks,
-chris
--
Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-01 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-01 11:17 OS Virtualization Arvind Kalyan
2004-10-01 11:42 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2004-10-01 12:37 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-01 18:00 ` Adam Heath
2004-10-01 16:12 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-10-01 17:59 ` Adam Heath
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