Re: User Mode Linux and Taroon?

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, David Aquilina wrote:

> On 5/10/05, nathan r. hruby <nhruby uga edu> wrote:
> > Anyone using UML (or Xen or vserver?) with taroon and care to share
> > experiences, etc?
>
> I believe UML (and I know Xen) requires kernel patches which are not
> present in Taroon.
>
> Have you considered VMware? While it is not Free it does work
> relatively well, and doesn't as strongly affect your supportability by
> RH.  VMware Workstation does have a free trial available as well.

I have no problem with support and patching the kernel, as I'm in .edu
land and thus, have no support anyway :)

VMWare is an option, but sadly I think we just went into "End of Fiscal
Year Budget Freeze" so, it'll be a good long while before I can ask for
toys again.. probably longer than the free trial of VMWare and longer than
my self-imposed testing completion deadline.

This isn't a biggie, I just was wanting to test some upgrades and various
other things that we're planning for the next few months without having to
rebuild a machine every 20 minutes and didn't want to spend a lot of time
learning new stuff because I have other stuff to learn right now.  My hope
was someone would instantly pop up and say 'Here's the UML+RHEL HOWTO, now
please go RTFM.'  It's not critical, and can wait until I have
some more free time.  Maybe by then Xen will be able to host RHEL and I
can just use Fedora.

Thanks though!

-n
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