some virtualization issues/comments (qemu,uml)
Hi,
I've been looking into UML and qemu for virtualization and testing
distro's and features.
It seems to me that qemu is a nice way to testdrive a distro, upgrading,
checking a new kernel (an issue i've been having with an upgrade from
a woody to a sarge release), testing backups (restore). Even some
proprietary OS runs on it (if that's an advantage, i'll leave that up to
you :))
Qemu is also extremely easy to setup.
UML on the other hand seems faster and more suitable to sharing a
machine and giving each person his/her own UML to mess with.
What i'm planning to do in the future for my home lan is making a few
UML's on my current server to provide different hosts for DHCP,DNS, mail
and webserver. I can't see this happening with qemu because it would
probably be a bit to slow.
I haven't played with Xen or vservers yet.
Does anybody know if it's possible for UML to install a distro from a cd
like you can do with qemu? That way you can really test the setup of a
distro. For instance, one could test the debian installer.
Both for UML and Qemu what would be an good way (=easy setup) of sharing
the package cache of the host? Ideally that would be something that can
be used by other hosts on the LAN too.
I'm currently having a look at apt-move
Thanks for any remarks/comments
Regards,
Benedict
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Benedict Verheyen Debian User
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