Hello all, I'm a long-time UML user and lately I've become a bit worried on the state of the UML. This list, as well as the -user one, is very quiet these days. Is there someone still actively developing the UML? I have to say I really like it! Running Linux on Linux reliably and efficiently, just what I need! :-)
I'm currently running three UML virtual machines on an server using Athlon XP-M. The host is running 2.6.31 and the guests are 2.6.27. I cannot upgrade neither host nor guests due to these problems: - SKAS 3 patches available up to 2.6.31 only. Merging this to current kernel might not be a problem, just some work, but: - Severe data corruption on guest on recent guest kernel versions. I'm using a few hard disk partitions directly for UML guests. Something after 2.6.27 guest breaks this quite badly. Even for small data sets like 100 MiB, copying a file to a different location on guest and then running md5sum on both often produces a different result. Do I have any options than to switch to Qemu and suffer the performance penalty from emulation (kqemu is obsolete, too) or to switch to newer hardware that supports kvm? Qemu performance is somewhat less than 10 % of the native (or UML) performance. I also found something called lguest but haven't given it a try yet. Looks the most interesting but that doesn't seem to have much list activity either. So it works perfectly for almost everyone or has few users... ;) How are others coping in the current situation? Or is it just me who has these troubles...? Best regards, -- Sakari Ailus sakari.ai...@iki.fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
