I truly thank you for all of the positive support and quick feedback that you have given me over the years as I work towards building just a simple idea into a workable user product as it goes far beyond just building an ultra-slim hypervisor and if these rudimentary steps go well then you will see more of the global idea unfold into the paradigm shift that I envision.
I encourage you to take a second look. Sculpt OS is pretty much
bare-bone. The default bootable image [1] is 27 MiB in size. With the
wireless driver removed, the image weights only 16 MiB. This includes
the kernel, the GUI stack, fundamental drivers (network, USB, NVMe,
SATA, display, PS/2), and the software installation/update mechanism. It
is specifically designed to be a suitable base for scenarios like the
one you describe.
[1] https://genode.org/download/sculpt
If you find Sculpt OS not suited for your scenario, I would very much
appreciate to learn why. So we can take your feedback into account for
upcoming versions.
I think that I will go back now and take a better look at Sculpt as well as read up on it to get a better feel for how to use it since I was able to fire it up in a VirtualBox on my Debian 9 system as well as on native hardware, but at that time it did not seem intuitive on its usage.
As one data point, I'm using Virtualbox on Sculpt as my only OS on my
laptop everyday to get all my work done. ;-)
This is very good to hear and makes me excited to look deeper into using it since I had always liked the idea of VirtualBox as the single-instance VMM.
Can you also tell me if the VBox RDP functionality is working as well since this is a critical part of infrastructure that I will need in this new type of hypervisor OS design?
During the design of Sculpt, I actually had our previous conversations
(from some years ago) in the back of my head. Back then, the attempt to
replicate the NOVA demo based on Genode would have required too much
effort on your side. So you understandably dropped out. Given this
experience, one of the major goals behind Sculpt OS was to dramatically
reduce this effort - to empower people like you to pursue product ideas
without getting too much sucked-in into hairy technical details.
Being able to develop this type of "product" is really what is needed for me, in particular, without getting tied down in the hairy technical details like you mention so Genode actually may be the viable solution that I have been seeking.
Should you succeed in using Sculpt OS as your base, I'd call Sculpt a
success. If you give it a go and need further guidance beyond the
documentation [2], you are always welcome to post here.
[2] https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-20-02
It would give me great pleasure also to help show that Sculpt is a resounding success towards my project and I look forward to seeing what can be done. Let me read up on it with the latest Genode documentation and see if I can compile up the NOVA + Genode + VirtualBox design.
I think that I will setup a Ubuntu 19.05 Docker container and install the Genode toolchain so that I can work on building things on my Debian host to see if that will work and take some baby steps from there.
Thanks again and have a great day, my friend.
Lonnie
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