On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Udo Steinberg <udo@...121...> wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:13:13 +0100 Norman Feske (NF) wrote:

NF> The lack of performance and scalability is possibly the most unfortunate
NF> stigmata attached to microkernel technology. However, there exists a
NF> series of evidence (in particular coming from the L4 research community)
NF> that repeatedly debunked this universal truth. A few references:
NF>
NF> [...]
NF>
NF> The NOVA microhypervisor [2] shows how a microkernel-based hypervisor
NF> actually outperforms virtualization solutions based on monolithic
NF> architectures.

Moreover, a recently completed diploma thesis by Markus Partheymüller shows
that Linux in a VM on top of NOVA scales just as good as on bare hardware.

That is absolutely wonderful to hear as I really like NOVA and Genode a lot as I learn more and more about them. 

Will you be posting an ISO of the project?

I have tried the past livecd of NOVA 0.3 that is using Tiny Core Linux in a small VM, but what I would like to get worked out is NOVA with one VM running a much larger Linux LiveCD (perhaps Debian or Ubuntu, etc..), another VM possibly running ReactOS (just for testing of the VM) and a third VM possibly with Genode as in their dated demo.

I am still figuring out NRE (which I have been able to compile) and have been looking at NUL to try and see what it might take to develop a VM that could run a "semi-windows" environment like ReactOS initially as the goal would be to possibly run some version of Windows in a VM instead of ReactOS which is really not useful at this stage. Is these (NOVA with Genode, Debian/Ubuntu Linux, and Windows (ie. ReactOS perhaps for testing.) is possible then I can start to see how to modify and develop the VM's that I need for my distributed VM cluster although there is still much to learn about NOVA and Genode during this learning curve.
 
The thesis is available from hypervisor.org as well, which is the place
where I intend to keep all NOVA-related documentation in a single location.


I am grabbing the thesis documents now so that I can get a better feel for NOVA and will be doing the same for Genode.

Great job and I am looking forward to seeing these project progress.

Cheers,
Lonnie

 
- Udo

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