JPC for Jnode

Finally, there is yet another version of JPC, look here.
Unfortunately, it's still unable to boot JNode.

The makers of JPC have also done another open source product called Nereus-V, which is about cloud computing in pure java.

Fabien

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See here, there is the new version of JPC and its sources.
In fact, it's the QEMU Linux Test distribution (based on RedHat 9).

I tried and it's fast.

cool, isn't it ?

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

Look at my comment about JPC at JavaOne 2007. As you can see, JPC can run inside JNode.

We were contacted by Rhys Newman, the JPC teamleader, few weeks before JavaOne 2007 and have helped him making that possible.

About running JPC at lowest possible level :
- you must avoid using anything related to awt & swing (which will use JNode AwtToolkit and start the GUI)
- the basic idea is to create implementations of JPC devices that will wrap JNode device drivers. The problem here is that JPC virtual video card probably rely on Graphics, which contains primitive drawing (lines, pixels, rectangles, ...). So, we probably have to implement (or share the class that implements) these functions.

Anyway, it's a good idea and if you want to help us for that or something else you are welcome. Don't forget : you can also meet us on irc to discuss about that.

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

You are welcome to give it a go.

Re: "running JPC at the lowest level", JNode can currently be booted to the GUI or to a text console that runs in VGA mode. In the long term, we should also support "headless" configs where JNode is controlled via a serial port or a network terminal session.

It all depends by what you mean by "at the lowest level".