Re: [User-mode-linux-devel] Re: LINE 0.1 available

[Erik P. <epa...@cs...>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:57:09PM -0400, Michael Vines wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:
> 
> > Very cool.  I'll fiddle with my site some to add pointers to your stuff.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> > I'm curious as to why, once you had decided to do this, you didn't just link 
> > the kernel in to get the real system calls.  That would have resulted in a 
> > completely independent implementation of UML...  On Windows, no less...
> 
> That's sortof what I was working towards when I got swamped with real work
> and had to stop.  You can see that with the source for 'version2', how
> it's more laid out like the real kernel source.  But the fact that the
> kernel is quite gcc specific was a real pain considering I was using VC++. 
> I know cygwin would have been the logical choice, but I prefer the VC++
> debugger over gdb :)

Cygwin requires that all the cygwin dll's be installed on the executing 
machine though, right? So ideally, a UML port to NT would be with VC 
(which I realize would be a tremendous pain in the ass)

-Erik