Re: porting Linux to a virtual machine

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 18:54:10 EST


* Robert W. Fuller (orangemagicbus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Has anybody ported Linux to a virtual machine? Does anybody have any
> pointers aside from the lkml's abbreviated FAQ entry concering porting
> to a new processor? What would be the best way of going about this? Is
> there a supported architecture that is simpler than the others and/or
> better to use as a model? What about the UML (User Mode Linux)
> architecture? Are there doc's, FAQ's, etc. concerning this? Should I
> just read the mailing list and harvest the source code? Thank you for
> any (positive) input.

See Xen, s390, and power5 for starters.

thanks,
-chris
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