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Brings back lovely memories of Knoppix days. That's more or less how we used to mod CD based distros, mounted as looped-back filesystems. Maybe another missing
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Brings back lovely memories of Knoppix days. That's more or less how
we used to mod CD based distros, mounted as looped-back filesystems.
Maybe another missing link in the continuum between simple chroot and
full VMs is User Mode Linux (UML). Whatever happened to that? Didn't
it get folded into Linux kernel as a standard thing at some point? Why
do we never hear much of it now?
- flyinghamster 4y agoI haven't really kept up with it, but I didn't find it in a cursory check of 6.0.7. Linode used UML when they were first starting, before eventually moving to Xen and then KVM.
- mcculley 4y agoIt is still there: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/um https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/um
- flyinghamster 4y agoThanks - I can think of edge cases where it can still be useful (particularly for kernel development). I didn't wade deeply enough into menuconfig to find it.
- xmodem 4y agoThere's now also gVisor