Subject: Re: usermode kernel
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 12/12/2000 08:59:44
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:10:53PM -0400, David Maxwell wrote:
> > Am I missing something, what other problems would arise if I want
> > to port the kernel to usermode? Are/were there any other people
> > doing something alike (in BSD land - in Linux land there is already
> > the user-mode linux project)
> 
> NetBSD would certainly be better suited to this than Linux - we could
> have a port-netbsd architecture ;-)

having it as an architecture does sound like a good idea.  where else
would you put it? :-)

umlinux will eventually become an arch/ in linux-n.n.n.tar.bz2 as well.
probably where n.n.n == in the next development cycle (2.5) 

> As someone else said though, why?

why eat toast?

i like it because it boots a lot faster than a real kernel, and makes it
easier to simulate crash scenarios (kill -9 pidofusermodekernel)

i'd certainly like to see a usermode netbsd

j.