[Nottingham] User-mode-linux alternatives

[Matthew Walster]

Graeme Fowler wrote:

> On Tue 14 Jun 2005 10:01:23 BST , Matthew Walster
> <matthew at walster.org> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone here have any experience in this area?
>
>
> Qemu has been quite a useful piece of software for me (and the only
> non-commercial virtualisation environment that I've used):
>
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
>
> Those of you with a "strictly F/OSS, (L)GPL, BSD or similar" licensing
> bent will not like Qemu as it has a proprietary, closed-source,
> binary-only accelerator module (which I hasten to add is quite
> spectacular in the speed bump it gives).
>
> I've used qemu on a number of occasions, usually for POC testing
> before going into a hardware based test.
>
> I see that FC4 now has the Xen extensions rolled in, haven't played
> with it yet (only released < 24 hours ago) but I would surmise that
> having it in a distro makes installation, config and manglement much
> simpler.

This has piqued my interest, but I'd prefer to stick to FOSS solutions
;) Thanks for the suggestion none-the-less.

With regards to Fedora and Xen, it's interesting enough, but I'm not a
Fedora man, don't feel at home without apt!

Cheers,

Matthew Walster
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