Re: [uml-devel] user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:41, Renzo Davoli <re...@cs...> wrote:
> Dear User-Mode Linux developers,
>
> FOSDEM accepted my proposal for a devroom about
> "new challenges in virtualization".
>
> I think this devroom can be also a meeting point for
> user-mode-linux developers to discuss the future
> of the project.
> I have added an item to the topic list:
> * user-mode-linux: dead or alive?
>
> I think it is alive and healthy and it can benefit from
> new virtualization supports in the kernel, optimized
> ptrace tags and utrace-based modules.
> I am sure you have many other ideas.

Personally, I like UML because
  - It's easy to get it running,
  - I can run it without needing root access, so I can run it on any
Linux machine I have an account on[*],
  - I can use it to do things that are limited to root-only, e.g.
      * create device nodes on file system images,
      * run wireshark to analyze network communication.
  - I even use it to debug/develop code for the Amiga Zorro bus, by
adding a fake bus with fake devices ;-)

[*] That's the major annoyance of coLinux: you need to be administrator.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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