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by nonrandomstring 865 days ago
Thanks.

So, slow as it may be, the win for UML (which seems to still have a heartbeat) is that it can run on uP without any specific virtualisation capabilities, right? If I could run Linux on a Z80/6502 then in theory I could run a virtualised Linux on a Z80/6502.
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mark_undoio 865 days ago
Yes - plus the original win of UML was also being able to run virtual instances on a kernel without proper virtualization capabilities.

In the early 2000s people used to use UMLs as a hosting platform - they didn't have the same security isolation as a proper VM (or even, necessarily, of a container) though.

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als0 865 days ago
How do containers have better security isolation than UML?
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nonrandomstring 865 days ago
When I tinkered with UML I think it was prior to cgroups (2007) [0] so my guess is that escaping the UML instance was easier.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups

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