Ivan Shmakov, le Fri 05 Jun 2009 22:01:26 +0700, a écrit : > >> * The time and qualification necessary to deploy one or more > >> GNU/Linux systems on a single host using User-Mode Linux is (to my > >> experience) significantly lower than for the other solutions (KVM, > >> Xen) > > > For Xen I agree. For KVM, I don't. Building a UML image is not > > particularly easier than building a KVM image. > > I've implied using rootstrap to build an image.
And you can use debootstrap to build a debian image. There is no fundamental difference here. > >> * Running User-Mode Linux doesn't imply any privileged user > >> intervention (contrary to both KVM and Xen) > > > KVM doesn't either. > > Nevertheless, it depends on access to /dev/kvm, which is a > privilege. Oh, I thought it was given to any user. So they still fear security breaches... > There're more differences between UML and KVM. Consider, e. g., > the inability to run KVM under KVM Not that I particularly care :) > However, what bothers me the most, is the use of hardware > emulation, leading to: That, however, is a valid point yes. That's also one of the reason why I prefer running Mach in Xen than in KVM. Samuel
