On Sat, 5 May 2001 19:01:03 -0400 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:33:45PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > > One could use fakeroot to create a sort of virtual machine, in which regular > > users can install packages as they please, but fakeroot doesn't support > > chroot (yet?), and I'm beginning to think a better solution would be an > > operating system within an operating system, and let the user play in her > > `own' system, and while it for all intents and purposes seems to be running > > on bare metal, it really is a virtual machine. That would be quite fantastic > > for doing normally privileged operations without a security risk, though. > > You should look into the S/390 port. The S/390 port is hardware specific. For obvious reasons (how many Debian machines are S/390s?), this is inadequate. And anyway, I was referring to a Linux kernel in a process (ie, it behaves just like any other program, albeit rather large), not two Linux kernels running separately, which is what I understand the S/390 port does. Regards, Alex.