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User Mode Linux(R) (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series)
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by Jeff Dike
Sales Rank: 647212
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List Price: $54.99
$44.40
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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR April 22, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131865056
ISBN-13: 978-0131865051
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.9 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Back Cover Copy
With User Mode Linux you can create virtual Linux machines within a Linux computer and use them to safely test and debug applications, network services, and even kernels. You can try out new distributions, experiment with buggy software, and even test security. Now, for the first time, the creator and maintainer of User Mode Linux shows how to put it to work hands-on. Jeff Dike covers everything from getting started through running enterprise-class User Mode Linux servers. You'll find authoritative advice on bootup, compilation, administration, specialized configurations, and much more.
Coverage includes- What User Mode Linux is, how it works, and its uses in Linux networks
- Key applications, including server consolidation, development, and disaster recovery
- Booting and exploration: logins, consoles, swap space, partitioned disks, and more
- Copy-On-Write (COW): UML's efficient approach to storing filesystem changes
- In-depth discussion of User Mode Linux networking and security
- Centrally managing User Mode Linux instances, and controlling their hardware resources
- Implementing clusters and other specialized configurations
- Setting up User Mode Linux servers, step-by-step: small-scale and large-scale examples
- The future of virtualization and User Mode Linux
Whether you're a netadmin, sysadmin, teacher, student, or programmer, User Mode Linux®--the technology and this book--is indispensable.
About The Author
Jeff Dike, an engineer at Intel, is author and maintainer of User Mode Linux. Well known throughout the Linux technical community, he has been active in Linux kernel development for more than five years. He holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.
Customer Reviews & Comments
UML is a great tool for all sorts of applications and projects, but the biggest attraction for me is the opportunity to learn more about the Linux kernel itself. This book covers UML in depth, but also includes the thinking process Jeff Dike went through in its development and discusses the mistakes and trade-offs he made. You'll learn quite a bit about the kernel just from reading this and of course once you have it running, you can learn even more. I thoroughly enjoyed this. My only complaint is that the book assumes your Linux came with UML installed and doesn't even tell you what RPM you need if it didn't - it's user_mode_linux and you can find that and everything else you need at [...]
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User Mode Linux(R) (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series)
List Price: $54.99
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