On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 16:02 -0400, Calvin Webster wrote: > Thank you for the suggestions Arne. > > In my original post I was really looking for the fastest way to get 5 > LEAF routers and 5 or 6 minimal client hosts virtualized. I don't really > want to have to spend a lot of time building and learning the VM tool > before I can use it. >
ok, maybe you are right... took me only a few seconds to install it here on my debian... But for the accelerated version you need the one from cvs. There are precompiled binaries on the qemu side. > [QEMU] > > I took a look at the QEMU site. Some of the docs were a little hard to > follow since they don't always say whether they're talking about host or > guest OS. > > I like the cross-platform support, but it seems like it's still somewhat > "beta". > >From my experience i wouldn't call it more beta the Xen or UML... > Their comparison of other "emulators" claim that UML requires "heavy > kernel patches", while QEMU is nice to unpatched kernels, but it's > slower. Is this true? yes, you just use something like: qemu -fda Bering-uclibc-2.3beta2.img.bin and it starts nicely from the standard Floppy image. With the kernel module loaded it is much faster, i would suggest 2 or 3 times on my AMD 1800... > > [VDE] > > Is this required to connect QEMU machines? I don't see much about > virtual networks in the docs. > no, but it's the "smartest" way i know of. It creates virtual ethernet hardware (switches, hubs, cables), which you can connect to the host machine, but you don't need it... The standard qemu network support is limited, and you need more configuration on the host... > I don't see how this would help me create and test an _isolated_ virtual > WAN. After reading the UML docs it seems that I can do this with the > multicast and switch daemons, keeping the test traffic off my local LAN. > vde is using some of the uml switch daemon code if i remember it right. But maybe i missunderstand you what your intention is... > [Summary] > > QEMU seems well suited for software development, but for my uses I think > UML or Xen is the way to go. I'm leaning toward UML for now since it > supposedly requires no modification to the guest OS. I don't want to > have to recompile the LEAF distro to get started. > I can understand that ;-) I just wanted to mention it, as i use it heavily for testing networks, not only leaf ones. Would take me a few minutes to build a network of 5 machines, i suppose, but i have some experience with it... > Thank you for the info. I've bookmarked the sites for future reference. > > --Cal Webster > --arne > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. > Version 11 adds new functionality designed to reduce time involved in > creating, integrating, and deploying reporting solutions. Free runtime info, > new features, or free trial, at: http://www.businessobjects.com/devxi/728 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html -- Arne Bernin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. Version 11 adds new functionality designed to reduce time involved in creating, integrating, and deploying reporting solutions. Free runtime info, new features, or free trial, at: http://www.businessobjects.com/devxi/728 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
