VKernel progress update - 8 Jan 2006 (milestone reached!)

walt wa1ter at myrealbox.com
Wed Jan 10 16:42:26 PST 2007


Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Will a virtual kernel be able to run another virtual kernel as one of
> :its user processes?
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>     The biggest limitation to these environments is simply going to be
>     available system memory.  If you tell a virtual kernel that it has
>     256M of main memory, then it will only really be happy if it can
>     actually use 256M of main memory without thrashing the real system.

On a system which is running only a virtual kernel (and just enough
stuff to support the virtual kernel) how much memory does the real
kernel need?





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