Re: [uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-04 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:05:18AM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: > I hadn't thought of putting the NFS server in a UML. Although > the spoofing issue remains, that's better than what I had in > mind. On 2.6, you can now do authentication with GSSAPI for NFSv3 as well as NFSv4. > It's not clear to m

Re: [uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-03 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2005-02-02 19:22 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:08:17PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: > > > Would you rate hostfs as more or less secure than NFS ? > > Depends on your point of view, but I'd say hostfs is less secure. By > definition, you're giving a UML process access

Re: [uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:08:17PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: > Would you rate hostfs as more or less secure than NFS ? Depends on your point of view, but I'd say hostfs is less secure. By definition, you're giving a UML process access to the host in this scenario, which seems less than airtight

Re: [uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-02 Thread Raymond Page
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 02:40:52 +0100, Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-02-02 18:12 -0500, Edward Faulkner wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:24:49 -0600, Christopher S. Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > "Sharing Filesystems between Virtual Machines" > > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforg

Re: [uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-02 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2005-02-02 18:12 -0500, Edward Faulkner wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:24:49 -0600, Christopher S. Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Sharing Filesystems between Virtual Machines" > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/shared_fs.html > > COW is great if you want each UML to have it's own indepe

Re: [uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-02 Thread Edward Faulkner
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:24:49 -0600, Christopher S. Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Sharing Filesystems between Virtual Machines" > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/shared_fs.html COW is great if you want each UML to have it's own independent filesystem, based on the same image. But it sounds li

Re: [uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher S. Aker
> If you had to share a filesystem between several UMLs running on > the same host, what would you use ? "Sharing Filesystems between Virtual Machines" http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/shared_fs.html -Chris --- This SF.Net email is spon

Re: [uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-02 Thread Dan Lund
I do this with .COW files... A single image file, and each uml instance has it's own .cow file. Andre Majorel wrote: If you had to share a filesystem between several UMLs running on the same host, what would you use ? I take it that making each UMLs ubd point to the same host file/ block device is

[uml-user] Sharing a filesystem between UMLs

2005-02-02 Thread Andre Majorel
If you had to share a filesystem between several UMLs running on the same host, what would you use ? I take it that making each UMLs ubd point to the same host file/ block device is impossible. Having all UMLs mount the same NFS export is the obvious answer, but I'm concerned about the lack of se