Plex86 Lives, As Lightweight VM Technology

Kevin P. Lawton writes "Plex86 has been completely overhauled, and simplified to be a user (application) code only Virtual Machine technology. For running user code, many of the heavy weight x86-VM techniques are unnecessary. But the bonus is, Linux can easily be made to run inside the plex86 VM, so that the kernel is actually 'pushed down' to user privilege level. This has been demonstrated on both Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels. Thus, Linux can run in a plex86 VM without the need for any heavy virtualization. My goal is to keep the code base trim, tight, auditable and get to usable releases quickly. And to favor those goals over adding unnecessary complexities. The first milestones have just been reached, so it's still early in development. There are email lists available on the main plex86 site."

Comments

VM?

[B3ryllium]

Well, _anything_ is faster than BOCHS (BeBochs, specifically). Plex86 certainly sounds interesting, I'll have to look into it.

I just have one question:

Couldn't they have called it Flex69?

Re:Taking So Very Long

[evilviper]

No one is forcing you to read, or respond to this article. You do that under your own free will.

I read slashdot... The fact that I am normally interested in the information here is what forces me to read this story. As for replying, well, if you don't make your opinion heard, nothing ever changes.

It is certainly not useless to the developer.

How could that possibly be useful to the developer? Are we promoting vanity now? Work on an Open Source project and see your name on slashdot...

If you really don't like the articles posted here, then why do you waste your time here?

I'm not opposed to everything here. More often than not I am interested. In fact, I wouldn't be complaining at all if there was a preference to not display "trivial junk" stories.