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This is very interesting! It will be even more interesting to see if it can be compiled to run on my OS. This is exatly the kind of application I have been looking for. ESXi is too big :)

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I can assure you it can easily be ported and used on any OS. We just a few guys right now and don't have the capacity to test it on anything but Ubuntu. However, we are designed it to portable (and NaCl/Chrome code is also portable which helps a lot). Even to run on bare-hardware. So tried to keep OS usage to minimum. In fact, porting would be a more extensive effort to architectures not naively supported by Nacl. For example zerovm on tilera-linux (MIPS variant) will be much more effort then FreeBSD on x86-linux.

As a side note, I personally convinced that today OSes are an overkill for cloud-based number crunching (the prime case for zerovm) wasting resources. I am looking forward for future a lot lighter 'cloudware'. Think 'opencompute' approach for OSes. zerovm is being a humble experiment here.

Agreed on the overkill part. That is the reasoning behind the work we are doing. I sent you an email to discuss further.

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