[e2e] Virtual Hosts (BSD/Linux Stacks) in User Space?

[David P. Reed]

Well, if you want to run multiple emulated Linux machines on a Windows 
machine, there are two products that do this.  (of course you need a hefty 
configuration)

one is VMWare Workstation 3.0 (http://www.vmware.com).

It seems to have the properties you want...

Also connectix has Virtual PC for windows, which is said to do the same.

http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc4w.html

Seems like these might just do the trick.

At 08:00 PM 2/10/2002 -0500, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman wrote:
>Folks,
>
>We would like to cut our cycle times for developing prototypes, and be
>able to experiment with a large number of network nodes. But we are
>limited by kernel programming vagaries, and the number of physical nodes
>in our lab testbed.
>
>I have heard that folks (esp in startups) have ported BSD and Linux stacks
>so that several virtual machines can be instantiated in a single machine.
>This way when we crash the virtual machine, we wont crash the physical
>machine. And we can instantiate several of these to emulate fully featured
>prototypes and get significantly different information that what is
>possible in simulation...
>
>Now the question: do such software exist in the public domain? My
>requirements are slightly different in scope from what's provided in Jay
>Lepreau's incredible Emulab facilty.
>http://www.emulab.net/index.php3
>
>best
>-Shiv
>===
>Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
>Associate Professor, Dept of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)