An Interview with Jeff Dike - The creator of User Mode Linux (LinuxHelp) [LWN.net]

LinuxHelp has an interview with Jeff Dike. "Jeff Dike is the creator and maintainer of User Mode Linux (UML) - a virtual machine which runs on Linux. In recent times, UML has gained a lot of significance after Linus Torvalds incorporated the UML patch into the official Linux kernel source tree. Now a days Jeff works full time for Intel devoting his time towards further development of UML. He has also authored a book titled "User Mode Linux" published by Prentice Hall." (Thanks to Jake Balmer)

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Posted Jun 12, 2006 20:39 UTC (Mon) by ohadbc (guest, #34294) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm curious to know,
so forgive me for asking, but,
what has Intel to do with UML ?

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Posted Jun 12, 2006 23:06 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It pays Jeff ;)

(Perhaps Intel's virtualization stuff will come in useful?)

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Posted Jun 13, 2006 12:16 UTC (Tue) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link]

Intel has an obvious interest in supporting customers with a variety of needs. User Mode Linux has made it possible for me to share the cost of a physical hosted server with other low-budget VM users with similar needs. Chances are that none of us would have rented a complete server on our own. This represents business for Intel and AMD that would not otherwise exist. I am also currently specifying a few grands worth of hardware for students I teach which is intended to run UML or Xen - with UML being the simpler and quicker to implement VM technology. Either way, this physical server would have no purpose without low cost VM technology. Dropping the price point on being able to run a hosted server means that a lot more people can do this for many more purposes than previously - creating a whole new market segment for Intel's products.