Installing Libranet in VMware ?

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks for the information.  I'm running Gentoo and it has an ebuild.  I 
hope not to see RPM for a very long time <G>.  I'm not familiar with VMWare 
but I understand now - I wasn't thinking correctly.


Net Llama! wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> Okay, I guess I've been thinking about this wrong then.  I thought that
>> if my host was all XFS, and nothing else, that I had to have XFS built
>> into
>> the uml.  From what I understand - the host can be XFS while uml can be
>> anything, with ext2 being the easiest, if the uml needs anything from the
>> host it's transparent.
> 
> Yea, its the same basic concept as vmware.  What goes on inside UML is
> (and should remain) irrelevant to what occurs on the host.  You use a
> linux kernel for UML with UML support, plus whatever else you want in it.
> There have been reports of people successfully building UML kernels with
> XFS support, but that's only if you really want your UML filesystems to be
> XFS, otherwise its not needed.
> 
> If you're looking to do a Debian variant in UML, then there are debian
> packages (and filesystems) already available for that purpose (or so i've
> heard, i don't use Debian at all).  If you're looking to play with rpm
> based distros & UML, then you might want to check out umlbuilder.sf.net.
> 
>>
>> I may try uml again then.
>>
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

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