Re: lguest

François Revol <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.reactos.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 11 août 2010 à 08:11, Enrico Weigelt a écrit :

> * Andrew Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> ROS isn't suitable as a server OS, it lacks a healthy network stack, we
>> aren't sure if VNC works and it definitely isn't suitable for this kind of
>> usage. It's in *ALPHA* stage, is very buggy, incomplete, and *NOT
>> SUITABLE*for this kind of mainstream usage.
> 
> My idea was to provide it as a little playgound (along with other
> not-so-well-known OS'es, eg. Plan9), just to have some fun
> (these installations will run charge-free on spare resources),
> hoping that this gets a bit more audience and helping hands to ros.

You mean like
http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Free_Live_OS_Zoo ?
(oh dear it seems down :()
At least the VM server is up:
http://floz.v2.cs.unibo.it:8880/

> Anyways, having lguest support, would be a good thing: ros could
> reuse many resources of the host system (eg. networking, and a lot
> of devices supported by linux). Maybe some day that could fill the
> gap between native Windows and wine :)

I didn't follow the discussion, but if you just want to showcase ROS live on the web I wrote a php script using QEMU and the VNC applet which does this for Haiku:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/3rdparty/mmu_man/onlinedemo/haiku.php

François.
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