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User-mode Linux
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UML (User Mode Linux) is one of the virtualization solutions provided by the Linux community. Guest kernels are regular ELF applications on a Linux system and, once invoked, launch a virtual guest as a single user process on the host. Support for UML has been integrated in the Linux kernel from version 2.6 onward.