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Chapter 9. Host Setup for a Small UML Server

After having talked about UML almost exclusively so far, we will now talk about the host. This chapter and the next will cover setting up and running a secure, well-performing UML server. First we will talk about running a small UML server, where the UML instances will be controlled by fairly trusted people, such as the host administrator or others with logins on the host. Thus, we won’t need the same level of security as on a large UML server with unknown, untrusted people inside the UML instances. We will have a basic level of security, where nothing can break out of a UML instance onto the host. We won’t be particularly paranoid about whether network traffic from the UMLs is originating from the ...