Minix over Linux: A User-Space Multiserver Operating System

Author

Pessolani, Pablo ; Jara, Oscar

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ing. en Sist. de Informacion, UTN, Santa Fe, Argentina

fYear

2011

fDate

7-11 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

163

Abstract

Minix is an open-source multiserver operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. The kernel is small and is the only piece of software that runs in privileged-mode, on the other hand user processes, specialized servers and device drivers run as isolated processes in user-mode. System Calls use Interprocess Communications primitives to send messages requesting services from the servers, and to wait for response messages. The aim of the project described in this article is a user-space multiserver operating system (a modified Minix version) running on top of a middleware-based virtual machine with simulated hardware constructed from services provided by a host operating system (Linux).

Keywords

Linux; device drivers; middleware; public domain software; virtual machines; Linux; Minix; device drivers; interprocess communications primitives; middleware-based virtual machine; open-source multiserver operating system; specialized servers; system calls; user process; user-space multiserver operating system; Containers; Kernel; Libraries; Linux; Protocols; Servers; middleware; multiserver; operating system; virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing System Engineering (SBESC), 2011 Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Florianopolis

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0427-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBESC.2011.17

Filename

6114853