News: LINA uses VirtualBox as it's virtualization engine !

[Technologov]

Hi All !

I have good news: one independent OSS project started to use VirtualBox as it's virtualization engine. (previously it used Qemu)

It is LINA ! -- http://www.openlina.org

LINA is the middle-ground between JAVA-type virtual machine and Full Virtualizer, such as VirtualBox.

LINA is fully transparent development platform, with stable APIs, similar to Java.
However it uses embedded x86 Linux (LINA distro) as a guest OS on different hosts, where it uses VirtualBox.
LINA's goal is to make Linux APIs stable -- kind of extension of what LSB does - plus allow any Host OS to run Linux apps.

It has started two years ago, and is slowly developing. In my opinion it is still too alpha, but the idea is nice. So you can check them.

I really hope that they contribute back over here. Be it code or beta-testing.

P.S. I have previously written about them here:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... =lina#p779


-Technologov, 16.8.2009.