Roadmap 2019

[John J. Karcher]

On 1/3/19 7:54 AM, Norman Feske wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
>>> * What are your ambitions for 2018?
>>
>> I have goals in three basic categories:
>>
>> 1. Desktop.  This has two parts.  The easy one is to switch to Genode as
>> my VirtualBox host.  But I also would like to have the VirtualBox Guest
>> Additions for using Genode within a VM.
>>
>> Would this qualify for the roadmap?
> 
> the topic fits well with the overall theme that is emerging. I would
> probably speak more generally about fostering the integration of Genode
> with existing protocols and infrastructure. E.g., Emery's recent work
> with 9p [1] would also fall in this category. Also, the use of Xpra
> would be fitting [2].
> 
> [1] https://github.com/ehmry/ninep
> [2] https://github.com/zorodc/genode-world/commits/xpra

Oh dear, those are interesting also.  It's getting hard to keep up with 
it all!  ;^)

> That said, I would not go as far as making definite promises.
> 
> Speaking of the Guest Additions for Genode, I can imagine a nice picture
> where Sculpt could offer a VBox shared folder as storage option in
> addition to the detected AHCI/NVMe devices and the RAM fs. This way, the
> user could host the Sculpt storage in a plain directory on a non-Genode
> host system and deploy Sculpt within VirtualBox by accessing those
> files. The integration would be quite seamless.

Yes, that would be very convenient.

I haven't thought this all the way through, but do you have any thoughts 
on handling mounted directories along side partitions, e.g., in 
Leitzentrale?  I assume there would have to be some changes, but how 
major would they be?

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  John J. Karcher
  devuser at alternateapproach.com