LinuxQuestions.org
Review your favorite Linux distribution.
Home Forums Tutorials Articles Register
Go Back   LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Distributions > Ubuntu
User Name
Password
Ubuntu This forum is for the discussion of Ubuntu Linux.

Notices


Reply
  Search this Thread
Old 01-20-2007, 09:12 AM   #1
Utapez
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Apr 2006
Distribution: Edgy PPC,Edgy i686,Mac OSX,PCLinux openSUSE PPC 10.2
Posts: 18

Rep: Reputation: 0
Linux inside Linux? PPC


I am currently using a very stable Dapper install that has "Mac on Linux" working great, even with wireless. What I would like to do now is install a different ppc linux distro on an additional internal HD and run that from my primary linux (Dapper) just like I do with Mac OSX via mol.
Is MOL able to do this or is there another application I need to install? Thanks!
 
Old 01-20-2007, 09:15 AM   #2
b0uncer
LQ Guru
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: CentOS, OS X
Posts: 5,131

Rep: Reputation: Disabled
You could use something like VMware Player (or the 'big' edition), but generally you'll need to have a lot too much of resources to waste if you want to run operating systems inside an operating system. It just consumes memory, cpu, ...and what do you get? Probably not much except the joy; if you really need those things, then it's important and for important things you should be ready to pay some money to get things going as smoothly as possible.

I suggest VMWare, if you really want to do that. Even if it sounds nonsense.
 
Old 01-20-2007, 11:32 AM   #3
Utapez
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Apr 2006
Distribution: Edgy PPC,Edgy i686,Mac OSX,PCLinux openSUSE PPC 10.2
Posts: 18

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 0
thanks for your comments. It's not just the "Joy or discovery" it's about:
"Two words: Workload consolidation.

This is incredibly useful, and is what IBM does with LOTS of their servers.

If the performance is good, you can run two linux installations on the same machine, (say, your database and your web server), and they get the advantages of VERY high speed networking, workload balancing, etc.,
while keeping many of the advantages of running them on different servers."
---------------------------------------
It does seem possible with mol which has the GREAT advantage of not doing hardware emulation which is slow and drains resources. My mac osx runs at nearly native speed and on some apps at native speed, network is the same in linux and mac...
---------------------------------------

shell prompt if one does something like

startmol --linux=/tmp/vmlinuz

with the following lines in /etc/molrc:

linux_initrd: /tmp/ramdisk.image.gz
linux_cmdline: 'ramdisk_size=10000 boot=/dev/ram0 init=/bin/sh'

It should work with any 2.2 or 2.4 kernel. The video mode must be set to depth 32 though.
-------------------------------------
My new project!
thanks--
 
Old 01-21-2007, 12:05 PM   #4
robbbert
Member
 
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Hannover, Germany
Distribution: Let there be Ubuntu... :o)
Posts: 573

Rep: Reputation: 32
Keywords are (indeed) VMWare (several editions), Xen, Qemu, VirtualBox (new) and OpenVZ (this one should produce the lowest overhead), virtualization, and paravirtualization. (On Windows, there's Virtual PC and Server, too.)
 
  


Reply

Tags
ubuntu606



Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
LXer: How to run Linux inside Linux with User Mode Linux LXer Syndicated Linux News 0 01-12-2007 06:54 AM
install linux inside linux? hank43 Linux - Newbie 1 10-02-2006 02:27 AM
HOw to install linux in linux, (read inside, it's complicated) Sturm105 Linux - Distributions 23 02-28-2006 03:31 PM
Linux on PPC vs Linux on Intel memer Linux - Software 7 03-12-2005 04:01 PM

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Distributions > Ubuntu

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 06:19 AM.

Main Menu
Advertisement
My LQ
Write for LQ
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute content, let us know.
Main Menu
Syndicate
RSS1  Latest Threads
RSS1  LQ News
Twitter: @linuxquestions
Open Source Consulting | Domain Registration