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

[Cliff Pratt]

Donald Gordon wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 
I certainly looks interesting. After I've wrestled with UML 
a bit I may give it a look. Depends how much time I have to 
evaluate it.

Cheers,

Cliff