On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:29:51 +0300 "Samuel Korpi" <strontianite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/4/07, Eduardo Pérez Ureta <edpeur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am going to start developing some code in the UDP/TCP/IPV4 stack > > and I will probably have lots of crashes and lots of reboots. > > > > I am in need of a way to make a simple virtual scenario with two > > virtual machines connected to each other to try my development. > > > > What virtualization Linux scheme and way to interconnect the machines > > do you suggest to make development as easy as possible? > > > I have used UML, User Mode Linux (http://user-mode-linux.sf.net/), for > similar purposes and found it quite useful. Also, it's included in the > official 'vanilla' kernel branch, so you don't necessarily need to > apply any extra patches to get the virtualization working. Simply > configure and compile your guest kernels with ARCH=um. Further > instructions can be found on the UML web page and there is also a > fairly active mailing list to help you get started. > Werner also used UML for some interesting hacking see: http://umlsim.sourceforge.net/ The downside of UML is that isn't an "out of the box" easy to install option on many distributions. -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
