From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsNtr-0000Q8-Vs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:14:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsNtr-0000Pn-BW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:14:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsNqi-0007yg-4y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:10:56 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.9] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CsN0Y-0000lx-WA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:17:03 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] OT: Running qemu without host os? Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:16:59 +0000 References: <20050122040545.GA4374@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501221517.00014.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > However, your idea isn't that much different from the (fairly new) > exokernel concept, where each process has its own copy of virtualized > hardware, with simulated direct access from userspace, and each > process has its own drivers. My understanding is that the drivers > would usually be implemented as dynamic libraries, so most of the > applications would actually be sharing driver implementations. Which is pretty much the same as the Hypervisor which has been in use on IBM mainframes for ages :-) Paul