> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr]
> Sent: 22 June 2003 21:18
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: blacknoz@club-internet.fr; pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Debian Packaging
>
>
> On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:12, Dave Page wrote:
> > Jean-Michel; Mark & I recently played with:
> > http://www.usermodelinux.org/ which lets you run Linux VM's on your
> > Linux box. They have their own filesystems, and can run any
> distro if
> > you put the work in. Currently you can download pre-build Debian,
> > Mandrake, Red Hat and Slackware (as well as Tom's RTBT and a few
> > others). Perhaps snake could host some build hosts?
>
> I was thinking of using Bochs, which is a virtual machine,
> without real
> interest because it is slow.
Yeah, Bochs is pretty slow. UML isn't though, mainly because all you are
doing is running an additional kernel in user mode. You are not
emulating hardware or anything.
> I had never head of http://www.usermodelinux.org before your
> email. Where can
> we download pre-built distro? I cannot find the downloading
> address.
Just click the Downloads option at the top left(ish).
> The
> advantage is that several distros are installed without
> emulation... Quite
> interesting, why not?
Well, yeah. I'll see what we can do. We had a Slackware VM running in
minutes - the only thing I didn't get working yet was a NIC connection,
which is kindof important!
> Don't use Snake as a build host, we
> need it until your
> system is up-and-running.
Doesn't affect it. You can start and stop VMs as required - you don't
even need to tweak the kernel on the host (except possibly to allow the
virtual NICs), just download and run.
Regards, Dave