UML (was: Re: was there an advertised ETA for the next beta?)

Rik van Riel riel at redhat.com
Wed Aug 13 03:59:46 UTC 2003


On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, M A Young wrote:

> Since you ask (and I hope you are taking note of all the replies your
> question is generating), I would like to see support for user mode linux
> back in rhl (following a brief appearence in RHL 8.0). However since that
> might imply changes in the kernel, and possibly better anaconda support, I
> was viewing this more as a Cambridge++ project.

It would require two things which I can see:

1) support for anaconda to install into a disk image
   somewhere inside an already installed system

2) a kernel configured for user mode linux, which
   should be easy with the 2.6 kernel

In order for UML to be fun to use, it would need some
additional things:

3) a smaller default installation, for people who want
   multiple virtual machines

4) scripts to make it easier to set up networking between
   the virtual machines and the rest of the world

5) maybe scripts to clone virtual machines ?
   install them from scratch ?
   ... ?

For these it would be very good if people from the community
volunteered to start development.  If we get support for user
mode linux somewhere beyond severn, IMHO we should do it right.

Of course the "we" here refers to the community ;)

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan





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