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| author | antrik <antrik@users.sf.net> | 2009-03-10 03:56:40 +0100 |
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| committer | antrik <antrik@users.sf.net> | 2009-03-10 23:56:43 +0100 |
| commit | ae8fa4147ebd99a0825953694010d10467e78d33 (patch) | |
| tree | 1975113d35d15ae9391456aab1b7f2f612759e88 /community | |
| parent | 7be1677ac209d5ade197c8c53ab3556732082bb6 (diff) | |
Virtualization GSoC task: Drop subhurds subtask
Zheng Da is currently working on rootless subhurds etc.
Diffstat (limited to 'community')
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn index 52b1f48d..4f2d260e 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn @@ -25,13 +25,7 @@ desired constellations. The goal is to create a set of powerful tools for managing at least one desirable virtualization scenario. One possible starting point could be the [[hurd/subhurd]]/[[hurd/neighborhurd]] mechanism, which allows a second almost totally -independant instance of the Hurd in parallel to the main one. The current -implementation has serious limitations though. A subhurd can only be started by -root. There are no communication channels between the subhurd and the main one. -There is no mechanism for safe sharing of hardware devices. Fixing this issues -could turn subhurds into a very powerful solution for lightweight -virtualization using so-called logical partitions. (Similar to Linux-vserver, -OpenVZ etc.) +independant instance of the Hurd in parallel to the main one. While subhurd allow creating a complete second system instance, with an own set of Hurd servers and [[UNIX]] daemons and all, there are also situations where it is |