---
name: "jail_uml"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "uml-utilities"
version: "20070815.4-2.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/jail_uml"
---

# jail\_uml(1)

run UML in a chroot-jail

## NAME

jail\_uml — run UML in a chroot-jail

## SYNOPSIS

**jail\_uml** \[jail-directory\]  \[user\]  \[uml-command-line\]

**jail\_uml** \[jail-directory\]  \[uid\]  \[uml-command-line\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **jail\_uml** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian GNU/Linux** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see below.

**jail\_uml** is a small utility to run  UML in a jailed chroot as the user **user** or with id  **uid**.

When **user** does not exist it will be  assumed to be an **uid**.

## SEE ALSO

The *UserModeLinux-HOWTO (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html)*

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Mattia Dongili malattia@debian.org for  the **Debian GNU/Linux** system, based on the command help and sources.