Rick, This is a security question in addition to a management question. For example, assume that one of your guest instances is eventually compromised. Will it matter if the attacker can freely access the file system of the other instances? If so, then you should look at creating separate accounts with restrictive permissions on each rootfs. If it doesn't matter, then using a common account can simplify things.
To "kill" each UML, I would strongly recommend the use of "uml_mconsole". This will allow you to shutdown the UML based on a supplied UML ID rather than using a PID or other means. Good luck! Tony >>> "Lull, Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/26/05 09:24AM >>> I'm currently working on getting multiple UMLs up and going on a single host. What I am currently wrestling with now is the following: Should each UML instance be run from a separate user account on the host or should you use a single user to launch all the UML instances? I am thinking that having separate users would make it easier to kill a UML process that was not responding, but have a single user seems easier from the standpoint of using screen to get to the console. All these guests have to talk to the rest of the network, so I will have bridging between them and the rest of the world. I've successfully run 4 UMLs at once on this host, each guest had a separate IP, and I was able to ping/ssh to them. I'm planning on having somewhere from 10 to 14 guests on this hosts, if that matters. Thanks for any input on how to best handle this. Rick *************************************************** Rick Lull, CCNA Enterprise Network Analyst Bon Secours Health System 804.627.5006 BSHSI Network Op Center 800.918.0503 Pager 804.317.8586 Cell ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The information in this communication is intended to be confidential to the Individual(s) and/or Entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain information of a Privileged and/or Confidential nature, which is subject to Federal and/or State privacy regulations. In the event that you are not the intended recipient or the agent of the intended recipient, do not copy or use the information contained within this communication, or allow it to be read, copied or utilized in any manner, by any other person(s). Should this communication be received in error, please notify the sender immediately either by response e-mail or by phone, and permanently delete the original e-mail, attachment(s), and any copies. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id5hix _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
