On Saturday 22 October 2005 13:04, Joel Palmius wrote: > I've now played around a bit more with different ways of booting UML, and > I've successfully booted with root both on hostfs and on nfs.
> For practical reasons, the hostfs approach seems to require less arcane > configuration options, but on the other hand, the nfs approach doesn't > require running as root in order to have different users. > Any further thoughts on the relative pros and cons of the different > approaches? Speed: nfs Stability: nfs Running a UML as root: I always keep forgetting to detect the situation and add a "Insult_user_for_this()!" call. Btw, a process running as root can't even be chrooted (see man 2 chroot). IOW, call it "unsupported configuration". We'll have humfs soon, we hope, which voids the requirement "running as root", but not yet. However, there are the patches on Jeff Dike's incrementals page. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
