Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:51:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:51:06 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:36878 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:51:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:00:21 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Lars Marowsky-Bree Cc: Kevin Lawton , Pavel Machek , kernel list Subject: Re: Simple patches for Linux as a guest OS in a plex86 VM (please consider) Message-ID: <20030126200021.GB25524@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <20030124154935.GB20371@elf.ucw.cz> <20030124171415.34636.qmail@web80310.mail.yahoo.com> <20030124180255.GF1099@marowsky-bree.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030124180255.GF1099@marowsky-bree.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > To get any level of security with UML, you need to use "jailed mode" > > in which performance takes a big beating. To fix this, you need > > patches to Linux as a host, to make it offer a better environment > > for running UML guests. From a commercial perspective, then you have > > a patched Linux host + totally different port of a Linux guest. > > That commercial perspective is then completely misguided. > > All alternatives I have seen to UML (plex, vmware, UMLinux) suck > IMHO. They I know UML, but what is UMLinux? Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/