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Plex86 Lives, As Lightweight VM Technology

Posted by timothy on from the lightenment dept.

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."

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  1. hello hello! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hello hello! this by iosmart!

  2. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Plex86 runs over YOU!

  3. Death by a thousand goatses! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Old ike

  4. in other related developments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ford has completely overhauled their latest model car. It no longer has wheels, so you can't really drive it on any real roads. However, if you have a suitably modified cheese wedge, you can use the new model to slice cheese automatically. This has already been demonstrated with modified swiss and cheddar cheese. They hope to improve reliability and release it in the next year.

  5. Slow news day? by v3rb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Talk about a worthless article. How did this get posted?

  6. Re:Taking So Very Long by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't this the same argument thrown against Mozilla a year or two ago? "It's taking to long so it isn't worth the effort." or "We have Internet Explorer anyway - why do we need another browser?"

    No, that's the argument being used today, validly I might add.