Chromium Internals

The WindowService2(?) of CrOS

http://joone.github.io/cros_internals/posts/the-windowservice2-of-cros/ 2018-08-08
Recently, WS was replaced with WS2: window-service: removes mus_demo, test_wm, and some unnecessary deps Issue 865689 Remove window-service I’ve run mus_demo to test ozone-gbm, but now it’s gone. :-( So, I need to figure it out what is the difference between WS1 and WS2. What is the Window Service of ChromeOS? Window Service is a kind of Window Compositor like Weston. It is a separate process from the browser process in CrOS.

Linux Container for ChromeOS

http://joone.github.io/cros_internals/posts/linux-container-for-chromeos/ 2018-07-07
Recently, ChromeOS started to support Linux applications on ChomeOS. Google hasn’t allowed ChromeOS to run native applications due to security reason. Finally, they found a way to support Linux application through the container technology. It is worth to read a discussion on CrOSVM on Hacker News because the original author joined the discussion. Here is the article about ChromeOS Linux container. https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-os-could-be-getting-containers-for-running-linux-vms/ There is a Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9mrR2tqVbQ Here is the readme about CrOSVM: