On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:06:04 +0800, Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone here have experience using FreeBSD based VPSes > and how do they compare with Linux-based ones? > > Am I right in assuming the FreeBSD 'jail' is the equivalent > of 'user mode Linux'? Also, besides UML, are there other
It's similar, but not entirely equivalent. It's basically a way better chroot, but doesn't virtualize hardware (like virtual machines or user-mode linux). > VPS enabling mechanisms available for Linux? There's Xen... and there are other commercial solutions (VMware being the most popular on the i386). However, I think that the best implementation of VPS would be on hardware that natively supports running virtual servers (e.g. the IBM mainframes). User-mode Linux is a bit more mature than Xen although Xen's design approaches the techniques that are used on mainframes and implemented on cheaper i386 hardware. > How does 'jail' reliability/stability compare with UML > and which of them has been around longer? UML is quite slow - it virtualizes hardware andruns as another user process. UML's roughly of the same age as the FreeBSD jail system, but they take different approaches. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
