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'''User-mode Linux''' ('''UML''')<ref>{{cite webis an architectural [[porting|url=http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/|title=User-modeport]] of the [[Linux Kernelkernel]] Hometo Page|date=Aprilits own [[system call]] 4interface, 2008}}</ref>which enables multiple virtual [[Linux kernel]]-based operating systems (known as guests) to run as an application within a normal Linux system (known as the host). AsA eachLinux guestkernel iscompiled justfor athe normal''um'' applicationarchitecture runningcan then boot as a process under another Linux kernel, entirely in [[user space]], this approach provides the user with a way of running multiple virtual Linux machines on a single piece of hardware, offering some isolation, generally without affecting the host environment's configuration or stability.

As each guest is just a normal application running as a process in [[user space]], this approach provides the user with a way of running multiple virtual Linux machines on a single piece of hardware, offering some isolation, generally without affecting the host environment's configuration or stability.

== Applications ==

Numerous things become possible through the use of UML.<ref>{{cite web

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