FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: User mode Haiku, first step to alpha?

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

salierix <salierix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While looking at the tickets listed on trac, #1102 (
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1102) caught my attention. With all 
> the talk
> of an alpha release, I think a project to get the Haiku kernel 
> running as a
> user mode process on Linux should take precedence. It would allow any
> eventual alpha to be much better tested and would also be a great aid 
> to
> debugging going forward. In addition it would allow Linux users to 
> test,
> debug and develop programs for Haiku without having to install to a
> partition, burn a livecd or mess about with a virtual machine.

Well, feel free to work on it, but a user mode Haiku would have very 
little use for most people that are not kernel hackers :-)
And I'm lucky with Qemu and VMware - which also allow to test actual 
hardware drivers, that are the most common source to kernel 
instabilities (err, well, maybe in the future :-))).

Bye,
   Axel.