Hi ! Arend van Waart wrote:
> Marc Schöchlin wrote: > >> Hi ! >> >> I developed a software (will be in 1-2 weeks available as opensource) >> for managing virtual Systems which are using the jail-functionality of >> FreeBSD - now I ask myself if the jail-functionality >> is also available for linux systems. > > [snip] > >> Does anybody know anything about a patch which implements the same >> functionality on Linux ? >> >> Best regards >> >> Marc Schoechlin > > I do not believe jail() itself is available to linux, though you could > try the user-mode-linux project. > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/. It's patch for the linux > kernel to spawn a new patched kernel. The only problem so far with me > has been that it's a bit tricky to get the network working. > > When it's not what you're looking for, it is fun to toy with. I know the uml-project - but this is not what I mean - but jail() is more economical with ram and disk-space. The uml-project makes a deeper abstraction of the virtual-systems . Best regards Marc Schoechlin