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by zaxcellent 7y ago
As someone who wrote a precursor to that code (I work on crosvm), any language other than C has to write binding code for KVM (or any kernel interface for that matter). Are you suggesting that the only language that should get to use KVM is
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by zaxcellent 7y ago
This topic is also of interest to me. I work on a compositor integration protocol called virtio-wayland that is intended to allow Wayland apps running inside of VMs to communicate with a Wayland compositor on the host, shared memory and all
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by zaxcellent 7y ago
This MVP already looks very polished and I think the design is innovative. I coincidentally noticed the gap in open-source for motion graphics, but never got passed the notebook phase. One of the pieces I kept getting stuck on was the way
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by zaxcellent 8y ago
We felt the same way about QEMU before we started crosvm. Glad to see you all found some use out of it.
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by zaxcellent 8y ago
In case you're interested in the technical guts of crostini, I gave a recorded talk to the NYLUG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwrXqDERFm8
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by zaxcellent 8y ago
(I'm crostini developer) Chrome OS has some natural advantages as an OS e.g. it's always updated and secure, device drivers just work. Chrome OS is also the only desktop OS with Android support maintained by Google. Because Crosti
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Crostini: Linux Applications on Chrome OS [video](youtube.com)
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by zaxcellent 8y ago
The Wayland compositor was added to the Chrome OS UI to support Android, but it was very convenient for us to glob onto that for the Linux desktop apps support. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+&#
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by zaxcellent 9y ago
>Would you consider releasing parts of this as standalone crates on crates.io? I ask because there are many different things developers would like to do with KVM that might not be the same as the goals of ChromiumOS. Sadly, not many of t
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by zaxcellent 9y ago
Thanks! I've really appreciated your Rust guides over the years. It's been so handy that we pre-ordered 5 copies of your Rust Programming Language book a few months back. I can't wait to get my hard copy. :)
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by zaxcellent 9y ago
There is a somewhat expanded README that has yet to be reviewed and checked in here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm...
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by zaxcellent 9y ago
Author here: one of the policies we tried to stick to when writing unsafe code was to document each case. It can be tedious but it encourages having less unsafe code and makes the author really think about if this unsafe code is really meet
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by zaxcellent 9y ago
Author here: Rust is not officially sanctioned at Google, but there are pockets of folks using it here. The trick with using Rust in this component was convincing my coworkers that no other language was right for job, which I believe to be