Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Idea for DL: UML

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >during reading the last german c't magazin I got a idea:
> >what about adding UserModeLinux to DL?
> >Some of the users may be use DL also for some services to the internal net.
> >So adding UML would may be allow to save some hardware or bring in a 
> >additional step of security.
> >The idea is to have the UML kernel working only for firewalling (the normal 
> >kernel works only as ethernet bridge to outside network) and may be ppp.
> >All other things running as services on the normal kernel, so there is some 
> >kind of DMZ in one hardware box.
> >May be I miss it and this is already possible today?
> >What do you think?
> 
> The idea in general is not bad. There's also another project out there, 
> which does Virtualization under Linux (similar to VMWare).

Has anyone got UML to work, on any system?  (I haven't)

I tried it on SuSE 9.2, which has all the UML RPM's and a GUI setup in
YAST and it hung up part way into the install of the UML system.

 - BS