From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Cameron Patrick Subject: Re: [uml-devel] UML "Distro" ? Message-ID: <20041021065935.GB4900@patrick.wattle.id.au> References: <053e01c4b6f4$93f48e90$2000000a@schlepptopp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5I6of5zJg18YgZEa" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <053e01c4b6f4$93f48e90$2000000a@schlepptopp> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:59:35 +0800 To: roland Cc: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline roland wrote: > I would like to hear your opinion if it`s worth thinking about a > "UML Linux Distribution". Sounds like an eminently sensible idea to me :-) > It could be based on another distro (debian? fedora?) and contain: My personal bias would be to base it on Debian, as it is generally quite readily hackable, and has a lot of the infrastructure to support UML already there. Dunno, I don't think it really matters that much. > - A setup for installation of a minimalistic, UML-"ready" base > system - call it a "UML runtime environment". That means: Recent and > skas/sysemu-patched kernel(2.6), modules, X, uml-utilities, screen, > scripts, bridge-utils...... Is having X installed really desirable most of the time? Most of the uses for this distro would be on servers, and having X on the host makes maintaining the distro harder for relatively little benefit. > - Pre-configured environment (bridge setup,tmpfs,mountpoints...) Scripts to make it easy to add and remove UML guest instances would also be quite useful -- especially if it could take care of having UMLs running as their own user id (for security reasons) and setting up a root filesystem. > - basic root-filesystems "ready to run" Or alternatively, including tools like rootstrap to make generating root fs'es easy? Cameron. --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBd15Xl1rlvh2uVnMRAscRAJ0TJWvKb7gS5yEMrvGfxcmPEdL9DwCgpdpg f5goQRLnJ0Oh1Pl+8AdZcug= =Mo9e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel