On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:54:37AM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
With UML I can give anyone I wish a root account on their own virtual Linux box... I still have to worry about them misusing it or being penetrated, but not so much about attempts to subvert the uml host. I think UML is promising choice for ISP's who offer co-hosting services.
See also http://www.redwoodvirtual.com. They offer root accounts in a UML environment. I don't work for them nor am I a customer. Though I am thinking of playing with the idea in case I wanted to venture into web hosting. I'm always up for learning something new anyway!
I was a bit ambiguous earlier in the thread when I said "virtual environment." My main goal would be to run Linux on Linux, as close to hardware as I can get for the purpose of testing other Linux distributions. Recently I installed several Linux distros to get screenshots of how to update that specific distro. I used spare space on my hard drive for the installs, but then I had to worry about uids and gids and mounting the other partitions correctly so I could save off the screenshots. Not a big deal, but if I am going do more of this, I'd like to run the distros as a VM and mount /home via NFS, and authenticate via OpenLDAP+PAM.
Jeremy