> > > > Have you looked at UML (User Mode Linux) > > > No I haven't but that is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. > Not that its the perfect soultion necessarily (I still have to play > with it), but I needed some advice from out side the box I was > thinking in (-: > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ > > > > With it, you create a series of independent virtual Linux boxes. > > > The only issue with that is how well it scales. Also, I quickly did Fairly well I should think. Code runs at full speed. > look at it and it looks like you have to provide a file per environment > (i.e. representing the HD). I bet you could have that file live on a NFS > mount, but again I wonder how it would perform. Must read some more, and > test. You could have it on NFS, but I wouldn't. Unless you have a pretty fast network, you get a slow disk drive. You can share the base filesystem, there's a feature called COW that results in each virtual machine writing changes to its own "overflow" area. I personally think it's a cow of an idea, I cannot see how you can upgrade the base filesystem, so you will want to approach that with some caution. However, you can share filesystems that are read-only with no problem, and you can give each guest read-write access to the host's filesystem. > > Conceptually, even kernel panics are kept isolated to their own virtual box > . > > > Which sounds's great for some of our device driver work. People use it for that. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ============================== If you don't like being told you're wrong, be right! _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
