I'd been wondering where the hits on www.ephemeralsecurity.com were coming from!
We've thought about what it would take to get Mosquito running on embedded systems, or as it's own operating environment. Mosquito ports rather easily to devices such as the Linksys WRT54G, and is certainly small enough to be used as a payload for a VMM. A fellow ported Mosquito to run under Linux on the nios2 FPGA system rather seamlessly with the exception of byte alignment bugs in the compiler.
We'd been thinking about using an exokernel to run on bare metal hardware - Mosquito works with uclibc, so the exokernel would just need to implement the POSIX calls thatwe use. It's not too large a leap from an exokernel based Mosquito to a VMM system, though it would take a bit of development and Q/A time. I wonder if I can write off a 64-bit AMD with the hypervisor tech as a business expense.
--Wes
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I'd been wondering where the hits on www.ephemeralsecurity.com were coming from! We've thought about what it would take to get Mosquito running on embedded systems, or as it's own operating environment. Mosquito ports rather easily to devices such as the Linksys WRT54G, and is certainly small enough to be used as a payload for a VMM. A fellow ported Mosquito to run under Linux on the nios2 FPGA system rather seamlessly with the exception of byte alignment bugs in the compiler. We'd been thinking about using an exokernel to run on bare metal hardware - Mosquito works with uclibc, so the exokernel would just need to implement the POSIX calls thatwe use. It's not too large a leap from an exokernel based Mosquito to a VMM system, though it would take a bit of development and Q/A time. I wonder if I can write off a 64-bit AMD with the hypervisor tech as a business expense. --Wes