Sculpt OS With "Visual Composition" Posted For Latest Genode OS

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Phoronix: Sculpt OS With "Visual Composition" Posted For Latest Genode OS

The Genode open-source operating system framework written from scratch with a micro-kernel design has been working on Sculpt OS as a general purpose operating system. This week the project reached its latest milestone...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sculpt-OS-Visual-Composition

[timofonic]

What about QEmu?

[HadrienG]

IIRC, VirtualBox heavily leverages QEmu as a backend, so if it works in VBox, there are good chances that it will work in QEmu as well.

[Vistaus]

IIRC, VirtualBox heavily leverages QEmu as a backend, so if it works in VBox, there are good chances that it will work in QEmu as well.

You're confusing VirtualBox with GNOME Boxes.

[HadrienG]

After additional fact-checking, there is no confusion here, though the usage of QEMU is a bit more specialized than I thought. VirtualBox falls back to QEMU when it is not safe to run x86 code directly for some reason (e.g. VT-x is not available and the usual ring 1 tricks do not work). See the "Technical background" chapter of the user manual for some discussion.

(Apologies for the delay, I just discovered that the Phoronix forum notifications are quite subtle)