brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> How feasible would it be to port UML to a non-Linux?
Hard to say, because no one has done it yet. Obviously, the closer to Linux
the other OS is, the better. The biggest items (or equivalents or emulations
therof) you'll need are, off the top of my head
interception and nullification of Linux system calls on that
architecture
something like clone - different address spaces, but shared open file
tables
mmap with MAP_FIXED support
> Has anyone experimented with hosting UML under Mac OS X?
Not too seriously, as far as I've heard. However, that would seem to be
the best bet for a UML port because the underlying BSD is pretty close to
Linux. The downside is that you'll also have to resurrect the UML ppc port
unless you want to do it with FreeBSD on x86 first.
Jeff
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