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| Newer page: | version 17 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:12:47 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 15 | Last edited on Sunday, July 4, 2004 3:46:37 am | by ThomasYandell | Revert |
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With all the recent activity happening with Linux being ported to things, people started running out of hardware to port linux to. So one smart cookie decided to port Linux to uh, Linux! And thus the User Mode Linux project was born.
User mode linux is basically a program that lets you run linux as a normal process under linux.
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wait a significant time. you now have a uml image installed. you can start it with
./linux th0=tuntap,,,''ip-of-your-host-machine'' ro
you're done.
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+If you want to reduce the size that your root_fs take up, try the following:
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+* defrag the volume (apt-get install defrag on debian)
+* zero the free space (get zerofree from http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/sparsify.html)
+* make the file sparse
+** either use sparsify from the above link or
+** cp --sparse=always <orig fs> <sparse fs>
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