From: David C. <li...@ed...> - 2004-08-25 18:42:47
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On Wednesday 25 August 2004 18:24, Grant wrote: > I'm running Gentoo Linux and I'd like to have a pretty > empty host installation and two virtuals, one for > production and one for testing. VMware is attractive > because it's supposed to be easier to set up and you > don't have to patch the kernel. On the other hand UML > is cool because it's free, open-source, and > performance is supposed to be better. Which way would > you guys go for in this situation? What are you producing and what are you testing? I run both here on various machines although if I need a Linux VM, I use exclusively UML at the moment. As a note about VMware, you may not need to patch the host kernel but you do have to rebuild the modules every time the host kernel changes. David |