[uml-devel] UML and vserver

[Imran S. P. <im...@cs...>]

hi all,

I was thinking about using UML as part of a honeynet/tarpit solution. The
idea is to trap crackers/worms in virtual network consisting of UML VMs.
For this however to work, a lot of UML instances are required (something
on the scale of 200+ in my case). Obviously, this is not possible on a
normal machine. I would like to know whether it is possible for a single
UML instance to mimick multiple boxes such that the following sub-systems
are partitioned among the boxes: 

- networking: eg separate port space	
- separate process space
- A bit of filesystem separation.

and at the same time having as many things shared as possible. 

I came across a project called virtual server for Linux (vserver) which
does the above things. A commercial offering called virtuozzo is even
more scalable (2000 VMs - altho on a high-end machine)

Also, integrating this kind of functionality in UML will make it a great
platform for virtual web hosting.

Any idea how can this be achieved in UML?

regards
imran


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