Re: [uml-devel] user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

[Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org>]

On 21.11.2010 10:35, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>> * user-mode-linux: dead or alive?

>>From a plain user's view: basically dead

Why? See e.g. http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
SKAS3 is against 2.6.23 and unmaintained (my problem with
skas3 corrupting floating point registers did not get fixed
two years ago, although I tracked it to the skas3 and
provided a complete example to reproduce it).

SKAS4 is against 2.6.24 and marked as experimental.

So what should a new user searching for a virtualization
soultion take from it? Maybe there is an active development
running, but I don't see it, alhough I am following the
uml-devel.

Having an unmaintained old and experimental new version
is a sure way to hell for any software product, free
or non-free...

> Personally, I like UML because
>   - It's easy to get it running,
>   - I can run it without needing root access, so I can run it on any
> Linux machine I have an account on[*],
>   - I can use it to do things that are limited to root-only, e.g.
>       * create device nodes on file system images,
>       * run wireshark to analyze network communication.
>   - I even use it to debug/develop code for the Amiga Zorro bus, by
> adding a fake bus with fake devices ;-)

As a help tool to run at the workstation, yes, by any means
As a serious tool to virtualize services: no

Regards
-- 
                                  Stano

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