User Mode Linux is a virtualization technology which can be used to create Linux virtual machines within a Linux host. What is unique about UML is that unlike other virtualization technologies, the UML patch has been already incorporated into the official Linux kernel source. This is a review of a book on User Mode Linux authored by Jeff Dike. The fact that Jeff is the creator of UML lends some credibility to this book which pursues a niche area.
I have been experimenting with UML for some time. And I must say that this technology holds a lot of promise. Especially since as the review put it, the UML patch is incorporated directly into the Linux kernel tree.
I really think this technology is unfairly not been given the kind of publicity that other virtualisation technologies like Vmware, Xen and QEMU are getting.
Edited 2006-05-14 16:00
I really think this technology is unfairly not been given the kind of publicity that other virtualisation technologies like Vmware, Xen and QEMU are getting.
Probably because the rest allow you to use an arbitrary OS under them, two of them (and hopefully, soon all three) without any modification.
Isn’t UML already an acronym for “Unified Modeling Language”? Why not call it UMLinux to avoid confusion?
Or do we want Linux tech to confuse people?
*grumble* *grumble*
Well, at least the didn´t call it SAP, which is possibly the most overused 3-letter acronym in all of IT.
Some examples from Wikipedia:
– SAP AG, a German software company, or its various products such as SAP R/3 or SAP Business Information Warehouse
– Session Announcement Protocol
– Simple As Possible – Computer Architecture
– System Assist Processor, in computing, a specialized processor that assists a central processor on a large computer, particularly an IBM mainframe
– Service Advertising Protocol
– Service Access Point
– Atari SAP music format
Atari SAP music format
To go with Atari TOS operating system?
They REALLY should have been more careful about their acronyms.