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> no "host" or "guest". no virtual server Much of the time, virtualization is just a way to give you control over the whole machine. If virtualization is thin,

> no "host" or "guest". no virtual server Much of the time, virtualization is just a way to give you control over the whole machine. If virtualization is thin, you don't lose a lot of performance. It shouldn't be hard to make a Xen-backed VM administration interface. Then you can upload your MirageOS images (that you have tested on your local Linux, because MirageOS does that too) and it would work. You can't get rid of virtualization and still have it remotely configurable. How are you going to reset configuration of a machine if you destroyed the bootloader of the ring-0 operating system?

801699 9y ago
do not want to have it remotely configurable. nor want anyone to be able to "reset configuration" remotely. some configuration is fixed, static. to change it one needs to change the image. this is intentional. hobbyist user wants this. bootloader is on removable media user sends to provider. user is not using any provider software. user is paying for dedicated server and internet connection. that is all. do not use linux, mirageos. do not need to. have rump. user can make own xen guest kernels and xen host kernels. anyway, this is tangent, irrelevant. user does not need virtualization necessarily and in any case not virtualization provided by third party. simple requirements: want dedicated bare metal server. want hardware and internet connection. do not need/want provider software. will pay more for this.