Hi!

I'm not going to use it, but i'm just curious what you can do :D
So, baiscally I'd like (in my dreams or so ;) or on Windows VMWare) give users a complete private server just with everything (root etc.), the choice of the distro, so I think FreeVSD falls away, right?
So there'd be FreeBSDs jail() (http://www.freebsd.org), Virtual private server (http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc), user-mode-linux (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/index.html), VMWare (http://www.vmware.com) and I think that's all.

Are all of these able to do what I want? Wich of them is the fastest one, and the easiest to setup?

Well, that's all waht I'd like to know :)

Originally posted by Schumi3
Hi!

I'm not going to use it, but i'm just curious what you can do :D
So, baiscally I'd like (in my dreams or so ;) or on Windows VMWare) give users a complete private server just with everything (root etc.), the choice of the distro, so I think FreeVSD falls away, right?
So there'd be FreeBSDs jail() (http://www.freebsd.org), Virtual private server (http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc), user-mode-linux (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/index.html), VMWare (http://www.vmware.com) and I think that's all.

Are all of these able to do what I want? Wich of them is the fastest one, and the easiest to setup?

Well, that's all waht I'd like to know :)

FreeBSD jails are fast and easy -- however, they may not have all the features you seek.

Yes, I've read in this forum about jail(), so I'm aware that there are some problems. But I can install any linux ditro on it or even another freebsd distro?

Originally posted by Schumi3
Yes, I've read in this forum about jail(), so I'm aware that there are some problems. But I can install any linux ditro on it or even another freebsd distro?

No, only VMWare can do that. In FreeBSD jail(), processes are running on the 'host' system. They are only isolated from each other.

Well, I think there must be a way around that, I mean to get individual distro. Like you mentoined it's possible with VMW, but I think user-mode-linx (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/index.html) is what I'm looking for since their features (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/uses.html)-page states
"Trying out new distributions

Its filesystems are contained in files in the underlying filesystem, so any time you want to boot a new distribution, you only need to dedicate a file to it, not an entire disk partition. The project download page has a number of ready-to-go root filesystems loaded with various distributions, including SuSE, Slackware, Debian, and Red Hat."

and

"Virtual hosting

Another potential use - I don't know of anyone who's doing this. UML provides a fine environment for virtual hosting. Just give each user a virtual machine and the root password, and they can do whatever they want inside it without bothering anyone else."


or am I overseeing something?

However there must be a way to get it working, since diginode is doing so. But maybe they use VMW?

Hey..

Giving the customer a chose of distro is the very hard part. If you don't mind sticking with Linux then the ONLY product out there that does what you say are the Ensim Private Servers.