Nope.

--Chris

Brendan McNally wrote:
> Jeff
>
> Would you agree that UML is faster than hypervisor solutions?
>
> Thanks
> Brendan
>
> Will Morton wrote:
>> Hi Brendan;
>>
>> A hypervisor is a program that emulates a computer's hardware,
>> allowing an unmodified 'guest' OS to run within it.  UML in contrast
>> is a modification of the guest OS kernel to allow it to run as a
>> user-space process.
>>
>> KVM (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki) is a Free linux-based
>> hypervisor, and can run linux or windows (and I presume any other x86
>> OS), whereas UML can only run, well, linux.  The price of this
>> flexibility is speed; UML is much faster than any other virtualisation
>> solution I've tried.
>>
>> HTH etc
>>
>> W
>>
>>
>> On 14/04/2008, Brendan McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>   
>>>  Hi All
>>>
>>>  Just wondering would UML be considered Hypervisor? If not what exactly is a
>>> Hypervisor then?
>>>       


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