Crazy idea: compile busybox to WebAssembly, boot a Linux VM to it

[Xe]

At a high level, olin is effectively a kernel for WebAssembly programs. Why not get BusyBox working in it? We could then have a linux kernel boot to an olin environment.

• Get syscall compatibility with Newlib
  • Create popen
  • Implement a filesystem (afero and a boltdb implementation for mutable storage?)
• Build busybox with wasmception and newlib somehow
• Adapt olin to boot the system (hack gokrazy for this?)
• Use Adelie's easy-kernel package to get an amd64 linux kernel
• Create an initramfs with the system booting thing and a few binaries
• Boot to webassembly

[ryazo]

https://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html

For your awareness.