Re: [uml-user] boot CD

[Eric S. <esh...@co...>]

UML is not what you are looking for. It's purpose is mainly to run linux
inside of linux, as in a cheap way to perform LPARs (logical partitions),
like mainframes do. For installation testing (whether that be kickstart
scripts, or network deployments, or making an installer) you should really
use a system emulator instead. VMWare is a good place to start. It's
proprietary (and costs about $100 for the workstation version I think), but
it will do everything you're looking for, and you may even be impressed by
some of the extra features (like hard disk rollbacks, running system
suspends, etc). Just don't try to use vmware for running virtual servers.
It'll swamp the host system in about 2-4 instances. UML, on the other hand,
can run well over 10-20 on a decent box. Some people run as many as over 100
on a single machine (though I imagine that's a quad processor box with 4GB
of ram and 10k rpm scsi drives). Different apps for different purposes.
There are a few other gpl'ed apps out there that do what vmware does as
well, but I never had any success with any of them. Either they wouldn't
compile, or the interfaced really (and I mean REALLY) sucked, and they all
performed pretty poorly.

Hope that helps.

-Eric


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan McLoughlin" <cj...@eu...>
To: <use...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: [uml-user] boot CD


> Hi!
>
> I have been looking at UML for the purpose of test installing of
> distros. What I would like to be able to do is install a distro kernel
> image on a virtual filesystem from a bootable CDROM image. Is this
> possible with UML as all readme's I have come across specify UML
> specific kernels
> Regards,
> Jon
>
>
>
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