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RE: regarding academic project..

To: "'lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: regarding academic project..
Cc: karunakarp@xxxxxxxxx
From: Peter Mueller <pmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:55:19 -0700
> > there's no way that I know to do this. Maybe with VMWare.
> 
> user-mode-linux works beautifully for simulating a network of Linux
> boxes
> on a single CPU. Use it extensively when hacking on 
> netfilter/iptables,
> or when testing our patches on new kernels and/or ipvs versions.
> 
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Also has the added benefit that you can run the kernel under full
> control
> of gdb, which greatly simplifies tracking kernel bugs down if you get
> down to kernel hacking...

what are the main advantages of user-mode-linux over vmware? are the
following true?

user:
run as non-root
less bloated (runs linux only)

vmware:
runs os's other than linux


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