Re: Roadmap 2014

On 02.01.2014 12:27, Norman Feske wrote:

• Virtualization on NOVA/x86: Port of a "mainstream" VMM to Genode/NOVA. I am a fan of the Seoul (ex Vanvouver) VMM. However, I get repeatedly asked for features that people universally expect but that are unavailable on Seoul, i.e., Windows guest support. In the future, I'd like to pull a positive answer to such questions out of my sleeve.

As discussed with Norman today in the morning, we can add the following to the road map:

For base-nova several extensions are planned to cope better with (or better: to avoid) situations where the kernel runs un-controlled out-of-memory. Some of the goals are

* to limit the amount of kernel memory a process can consume * to adjust the limit based on some policies dynamically * ideally to have a kernel memory allocator per protection domain separately * to not hold/deadlock the whole kernel if one process runs out-of-memory

Several experiments already look promising, so we're expecting here changes this year to base-nova of Genode.

Cheers,

Alex.