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diff --git a/open_issues/virtual_square_view-os.mdwn b/open_issues/virtual_square_view-os.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7f5137e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/virtual_square_view-os.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +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) |