March NCLUG Meeting

[James DeWitt]

Hi NCLUGers,

What: March NCLUG Meeting
When: Tuesday March 4th, 6pm
Where: Home State Bank, 303 E. Mountain Ave (map on the website)
Food afterwards: Rasta Pasta, 200 Walnut

Presenter: Sean Reifschneider
Topic: User-Mode Linux -- Your Own Personal Mainframe

User-mode Linux is a port of the Linux kernel to run on an existing
system.  The product of the kernel build is an ELF executable which you
can run as a normal user to boot the new kernel.  Disc, network, and
console devices are emulated -- and from the outside you can send
"Control-Alt-Delete" and "Reset" signals.

This was initially meant to make it easier to develop non-hardware parts
of the kernel.  Attaching a debugger to the kernel is easy...  Imagine
being able to simulate a cluster of machines on a single computer, and
that disc corruption can be recovered from by simply deleting a file
that lists the changes from a baseline file-system image...

User-mode Linux provides all this and more.  Sean Reifschneider of
tummy.com, ltd. will discuss and demonstrate user-mode Linux and it's
features and benefits.

Sean Reifschneider is a Member of Technical Staff for tummy.com, ltd., a
local Fort Collins Linux consultancy.  We specialize in security
consulting, providing Linux expertise to our clients, hosting and
preventing problems before they occur.

See you there!

-- 
James DeWitt
jdewitt at verinet.com