Re: [uml-user] 2 more questions concering interaction with host environment

[Lars Marowsky-B. <lm...@su...>]

On 2001-06-05T14:09:22,
   Jeff Dike <jd...@ka...> said:

> They're on my radar.  Even on my todo list :-)

Cool. So I am watching this space ;-)

I am toying with the idea of writing a UML agent for FailSafe - restart the
virtual server locally/on another host on failure... *g*

> The lcall one requires a patch in the host.  It's a trivial patch, but it will 
> likely take longer than a day or two before you see it in the mainline kernel.

Would that one be available for 2.2 kernels too, easy to backport or 2.4
only?

> If you care that much, you'll also be running UML under chroot as a user with 
> nothing but a uid on the system.

... which still means access to all world-reachable files and potential
security exploits... (Paranoid? Moi? Never)

Definetely cool stuff. I wonder if combined with various other patches like
MOSIX, the process-group stuff from SGI etc this can "soon" kick S/390 ass
;-)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lm...@su...>

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