Re: [uml-user] An Ubuntu package for UML?

[Ian Smith-H. <pu...@0x...>]

Also, I've worked up a nice Ubuntu init.d script for managing uml 
instances. It does start, nice restart, halt, and hot backup on as many 
instances as you want. I posted it to the list a while back, but I may 
have added some features since then. LMK if you'd like to see it.

Another note on Ubuntu is that I've heard Dapper Drake server edition 
will be doing Xen virtualization out of the box, FWIW.

Stefano Melchior wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:08:34PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> Hi Stephane,
>>> Once upon a time, there was an Ubuntu package for the user-mode-linux
>>> kernel:
>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/warty/misc/user-mode-linux
>>> But this is for an old version of Ubuntu. For the current one, Breezy,
>>> the package apparently no longer exists and I cannot find why (the UML
>>> utilities package still exists).
> 
> this is the old Matt Zimmermann's pkg
>>> I find various UML kernels floating around, all quite old (typically
>>> only for Linux 2.4).
>>> Do I really have to compile one myself?
>> Both on my homepage (below) and on uml.nagafix.co.uk there are precompiled 
>> binary kernels (tarballed) and more than once instructions to use make-kpkg 
>> for UML were posted on the lists (this and/or uml-devel). Archives available 
>> on marc.theaimsgroup.com.
>>
>> I don't know about UML on Ubuntu, however the "parent" package on Debian is 
>> unmaintained so it's likely you're right.
> since a while there is a new team who is trying to take care again of
> user-mode-linux.
> You can find something (un)official on Alioth:
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-uml/
> 
> 
> I am among these people and I have got my own repos:
> 
> http://etinarcadiaego.dyndns.org/websvn (svn repos)
> http://etinarcadiaego.dyndns.org/~ste/debian (user-mode-linux bin deb)
> deb http://etinarcadiaego.dyndns.org/~ste/debian/ ./
> deb-src http://etinarcadiaego.dyndns.org/~ste/debian/ ./
> (/etc/apt/sources.list)
> 
> while you can refer to the repos suggested by Blaisorblade for the images.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> SteX