From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 4 May 2002 13:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 4 May 2002 13:14:30 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:48327 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 4 May 2002 13:14:29 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Guest section DW , Jeff Dike , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: Gerrit Huizenga From: Gerrit Huizenga Subject: Re: UML is now self-hosting! In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 04 May 2002 07:28:49 BST. <20020504072849.B2295@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <13323.1020532332.1@us.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 10:12:12 -0700 Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In message <20020504072849.B2295@infradead.org>, > : Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:28:03PM -0700, Gerrit Huizenga wrote: > > PTX could *almost* run VMWare (might be able to run Win4Lin or Boochs...) > > Umm, you have ported the VMWare and Win4Lin kernel modules? > For Win4Lin I could almost image it as it is ported UnixWare code.. Nope - that's where the part of the *almost* comes from. There were a few other things we didn't get to and the only time I remember someone trying it was when we still didn't have modify_ldt() ported, so that also broke. VMWare wasn't actually a goal - on the same hardware we could statically partition nodes and some nodes could natively run NT while some ran PTX. Now those same nodes can also run Linux as well. And we quit putting major development effort into PTX about two years ago, so we'll probably never find out just how close we were on VMWare. gerrit