On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:25:28AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > >On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:39:07PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > > > > >>I downloaded Fedora, and tried to install it on a box of mine (well - > >>VMWare to be precise). The problem with installing it was not > >>technical. > >> > >> > > > >Boo, real men use UML and report bugs :-) > > > > > I realize that this was meant as a joke, but I would like to make sure > that I'm not missing anything. > > As far as I know - UML is for running an OS within an OS (and for > running DDD on kernel modules). VMWare is for running virutal machines. > I was not previously even aware that I could install a Linux > distribution from ISO into UML. Is that at all possible?
I don't think normal installers support this, but it shouldn't be that hard. If you really want, you can install something on a partition (which is probably inconvinient enough that you decided on vmware in the first place), then copy the partition to a file and run UML on it. > > Shachar > P.S. > Any news on free alternatives to VMWare? Boches is so slow it hurts, and > plex86 never left the ground, as far as I know. If you only want Linux on Linux, there is Xen (STFW). It doesn't run regular kernels - they have a port of Linux to it, and there is an ongoing port of WinXP to it. -- Didi > > Sh. > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Open Source integration consultant > Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
