[e2e] Virtual Hosts (BSD/Linux Stacks) in User Space?

[Debojyoti Dutta]

Hi Shiv,

You might want to look at "user mode linux" if you want to do quick kernel
developments. I had played with it and I liked it.  More details are
available at http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/

Cheers
Debo

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> We would like to cut our cycle times for developing prototypes, and be
> able to experiment with a large number of network nodes. But we are
> limited by kernel programming vagaries, and the number of physical nodes
> in our lab testbed.
> 
> I have heard that folks (esp in startups) have ported BSD and Linux stacks
> so that several virtual machines can be instantiated in a single machine.
> This way when we crash the virtual machine, we wont crash the physical
> machine. And we can instantiate several of these to emulate fully featured
> prototypes and get significantly different information that what is
> possible in simulation...
> 
> Now the question: do such software exist in the public domain? My
> requirements are slightly different in scope from what's provided in Jay
> Lepreau's incredible Emulab facilty.
> http://www.emulab.net/index.php3
> 
> best
> -Shiv
> ===
> Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
> Associate Professor, Dept of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
> 
>