[Umlbuilder-devel] Re: [umlbuilder-user] Re: UML Builder futures

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

> Very cool, this is getting close to be an ISP-level UML toolkit.

Not quite.  I would imagine an ISP would need to do a lot more
work on the provisioning side.  They would also make their own
images, use the COW stuff to save disk space and all sorts of
other tricks.

> I suppose the way for the problem to go away is for UML to come out as part
> of a standard stable kernel, and then lean on the distros to provide UML
> install compatibility.

Actually UML has been getting better at faking being a real machine.
Check out the fakehd and fake_ide options in 
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/switches.html

> This thing just absolutely hovers madly in regal splendor over all those
> Windows serfs.

http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/projects.html  (OS Ports section)
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/arch-port.html

Roger