Goals for a GNU VMM Less centrality Mach provides too much functionality in the kernel A single large VMM would not be better Should be stackable External pagers Mandatory: the Hurd relies heavily on this feature for translators Eviction Policy It must be more flexible Tasks should be completely self-paged Resource limits Must design an interface Cannot be done centrally Servers render services for clients Servers cannot be trusted by a central resource server Clients should supply required resources to servers