First, visit the new, partly-completed UML site. It's not totally done, but does have more up-to-date pointers to downloads and more user-friendly directions than you'll find here.

It's out!

It's written by me, and covers UML pretty comprehensively.

Available from the publisher and from Amazon.

• This page contains brief descriptions of how people are using User-Mode Linux.
• The kernel page has a brief description of the kernel, its capabilities, and how it makes use of the hosting kernel's resources.
• The download page tells you what you need in order to run the kernel and where to get it.
• The running it page describes how to run the kernel, what to do once it's running, and how to shut it down.
• For some fun with UML, see the Sysadmin Disaster of the Month contest where you will trash a UML system and figure out how to fix it.
• This page describes how to get the source and build it, plus how to compile and use kernel modules.
• Here is a screenshot of a two-machine virtual network, with one node running a local X server and the other displaying an xterm onto it.
• Rusty Russell wrote a nice HOWTO, which can be found here.
• Also see David Coulson's UML community site for news, forums, and lots of other stuff.

Plus, there's lots more! Look at that sidebar on the left and see all the stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet.

There are a number of pages showing the user-mode kernel in action:

• A virtual network
• An X session
• A login session
• A debugging session

Thanks to

• Dartmouth ISTS and Bill Stearns for sponsoring the security work in UML
• Bill Stearns for many forms of support since nearly the start of the UML project.
• RidgeRun for sponsoring the floating point ptrace fixes
• The UML SMP and highmem work, and the existence of the 2.5 BK repositories were sponsored by Cluster Filesystems.
• Thanks to Steve Freitas, Harry Zink, and the PostNuke Project for donating an SMP box so that host SMP problems can be fixed.
• HP contributed a nice IA64 workstation to the UML project.
• Intel for hiring me in 2004 to work on UML full-time
• A donation from: Support Open Source - SEO Company encourages firms on the Internet to support the open source community.

If there's a UML feature that you need or a bug you want fixed now rather than when I get around to it, and you'd be interested in sponsoring the work, get in touch with me at jdike at karaya dot com.

This project is hosted at sourceforge.net, which provides a number of useful services:

• This web site is hosted at sourceforge
• The project page , which contains pointers to everything associated with the project
• Mailing lists

user-mode-linux-devel - for discussion of the innards, code, algorithms, etc.
user-mode-linux-user - for discussion of the outards, questions about running the kernel, configuring it, etc.
Bug reports may be sent to either list.
Searchable list archives exist at MARC (uml-user, uml-devel) and gmane ( uml-user, uml-devel).
• IRC (see www.irchelp.org/ for more information on IRC) - #uml on irc.oftc.net is where I hang out 2-3 days a week. It's good for general UML questions and chit-chat. #kernelnewbies on oftc.net is a also good place for UML questions and discussion that relate to kernel development in general.