I'd like to use UML on my laptop for virtualizing my various development projects.
Essentially this is about saving disc space. I have lots of webapp (and other tcp daemon) projects that I want a root fs for but I don't want to waste disc space over and over again on the common things. Currently I use unionfs to manage lots of different chroot-able fs. My setup basically does what UML and COW files does. But unionfs/chroot of course offers no virtualization of network stack. It's also just a bit more klunky than I'd like. The trouble is a UML network stack is difficult for this purpose as well. I obviously need to be able to talk to the UMLs from the laptop metal so that I can use the laptop's X installation to run moz and such things against UMLd network services. So a bridge looks likely (anyone think of a creative other way?) I'm quite happy to run a local dhcp server and provide addresses to UMLs, But having a bridge on a laptop is problematic. Laptop network hardware is loaded in a variety of ways: hotplug, kernel, modules, ppp interfaces etc... I'd like to know what other people do, if they do this at all? Anybody have any brilliant ideas to make this kind of ad-hoc environment easier to handle? Nic Ferrier ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
