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diff --git a/open_issues/virtual_square_view-os.mdwn b/open_issues/virtual_square_view-os.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index dcc98785..00000000 --- a/open_issues/virtual_square_view-os.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -[[!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/> - - * <http://sourceforge.net/projects/view-os/> - - * Renzo Davoli, [*Virtual - Square*](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.108.9106), - 2005 - - * 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) |