Re: [uml-devel] process start time in future

[BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>]

Alle 23:26, giovedì 27 novembre 2003, roland ha scritto:
> btw: is jeff the only person doing development or patchmerging/bugfixing
> most of the time?
He is not the only one who develops UML: there is a whole bunch of patches 
coming in, even if he is the only one with write access to the official 
CVS/BitKeeper(I don't know which one) repository, as long as I know. Just as 
the main kernel.
> is uml primarily a "one man" thing and uml dies, if jeff
> looses interest one day? i don`t hope so... but i really wonder anyway,
> that there is so few traffic on the mailinglists.

That's not true, provided you don't compare to the LKML...
> is uml still so "exotic"
> that so few people actually seem to be interested?
A few people? It's inside Debian(Matt Zimmerman is the maintainer), it's 
bundled inside SuSE 9.0(we have often mail from SuSE labs)

1) it is very interesting: some things simply can't be done without it.

For instance, if you have a switched LAN, instead than one with a hub, to 
install NIDS you normally need hardware support(i.e. a port on the switch, 
connected to the NIDS, replicating what goes out from another port); and then 
a devoted machine, only to run Snort...

2) it's widely used and will be more, since it has been included inside 
official 2.6(even if you still need some patches :-( ); there are various 
hosting providers providing virtual servers using it; in Italy, for instance, 
one of these advertises on a lot of widely distributed informatic reviews...; 
I've also read a lot of articles speaking about it.
> maybe everybody has
> vmware already... ;)
VMware is not free software and since it goes emulating hardware, it should 
have more overhead; said that, I have no benchmark to show this. But if UML 
were slower, it would only need tuning. Note that normally, UML memory is put 
on a disk file, so it IS slower. But if you put /tmp on tmpfs(i.e. in RAM), 
this goes away.
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