Le samedi 28 mai 2005 à 14:13 +0100, Paul Brook a écrit : > On Saturday 28 May 2005 13:42, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > Does someone here have an idea on how to do the following using Qemu, > > but I'm open to other suggestions: > > > > I would like to provide a UNIX CLI sandbox for users to poke around in a > > UNIX course. It would be better if available from the web (preferably > > without having to install anything on the users' PC), and Free (as in > > free speach). > > The problem is that I need to give them root access, or at least a > > simulation. > > It would be even better if we could for instance install RedHat in it, > > but it's not really required. > > It's not really answering your question, but qemu is probably OTT for this. > If > I was setting this up I'd use UML and a java web based telnet/ssh client. Well, I was thinking about what the snapshot feature of qemu could bring me.
In fact, I thought about the following solutions: - qemu (or whatever other virtualization system) - chroot (or specifically dchroot in Debian) and remote telnet or ssh access - UML Advantages of every solution: - qemu virtualizes a complete machine, which means installation of an OS is possible and it is pretty safe (security-wise) to setup - chroot is fast to run and pretty safe - UML is fast to run and pretty safe Problems of every solution: - qemu is slow, and a lot of virtual machines at the same time on the same machine will slow it down and use too much memory, I think (I'm talking about 10 people «playing» at the same time). Using only a text-mode virtual machine may probably help, though - chroot does not allow much and may take time to setup correctly - UML is difficult to setup, and needs a kernel patch (even on 2.6?) to work > Paul -- Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BeezNest _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
