[wellylug] User Mode Linux - anyone had any luck with it?

[Donald Gordon]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:43:31 +1300, Glen Ogilvie <nelg at linuxsolutions.co.nz> wrote:
> You might like to try Xen
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
> 
> It is not UML, but it's does the same type of job and it's free.

If you want to debug the kernel by running it in userspace under gdb,
then Xen won't work as a replacement :-(

But if you want to do server virtualisation, Xen (once it's installed;
and compile it yourself, it seems to make things easier) is a lot
better; it's faster, and comes with nice managment tools to start up
partitions on boot, and makes it easy to get to the console of each VM. 
Much less hassle than UML :-)

donald