The Memory Protection Debacle

@Rogue

ExecSG's HAL can be made to work with a virtualizer service

Can you give me 101 in writing virtualized service for amigaos4, it will parity cool if I can boot for example Linux under OS4, (I need to have a look at User Mode Linux).

@LiveForIt

I think that you and Rogue are talking about slightly different things. You want to use AmigaOS4 as a host and run a different OS within it. Rogue mentioned that "ExecSG's HAL can be made to work with a virtualizer service, essentially making AmigaOS 4.0 a hosted system", i.e., AmigaOS4 could be modified to be hosted; Rogue never said anything about it being used as a host.

Running another OS hosted would definitely be great. Mac OSX (PowerPC) would be a nice candidate, although I'd imagine that writing the necessary drivers would require considerable effort.

Hans

@Rogue

I'll be wanting ExecSG to be the host (minimal host memory footprint),
I would be wanting to create a virtual machine tool inside AOS4

@LiveForIt

something like qemu with the "cpu-user-mode-linux" functionality,
or go the full fledged "cpu-softmmu" path for any arbitrary archspec

@Hans

possibly, will have to explore this later... I have other things to concentrate
on before this might be achieved if at all

@Belxjander

Sound like we are thinking about basically the same thing.