Re: Competitor to VMWare?

From: Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 27 May 2004 - 18:06:39 IDT

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:14:43PM +0200, Uri Sharf wrote:
> The User Mode sounds interesting, any experiance with that?

One exception: You need a modified kernel for the simulated system.

For instance, I want to install a standard distro on that simulated
machine. Here's what you need to do to install RedHat on it:

  http://linuxhacker.ru/uml/

In short: you need to modify the kernel of the installer. Thus you can't
simply use standard install media. Far from being trivial. 

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