[uml-user] Linux 2.6.11 source tree - UML Integrated?

2005-04-26 Thread Avinash Chinchalkar
hi,     Some basic questions, some of these has been answered several times on this list but asking again as i have roasted my system twice already and not successful in getting the UML up and running. * Does latest linux kernel sources from kernel.org (2.6.11 or above) has the UML host patches

[uml-user] stranger network problem.

2005-04-26 Thread Jack
hi, i met i stranger network problem umls use tuntap network , and it works ok. but after some times from the out side ,can't ping or ssh or ftp it, then from the host ping the uml,and it replys after that ,from the outside can ping it and ftp and so on. what 's the problem .

[uml-user] about uml read-only mode

2005-04-26 Thread Jack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi ,all . i have a problem. i want to start uml read-only ,but can't it reports : Checking root filesystem Disk write-protected; use the -n option to do a read-only check of the device. [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/ubd/0 fsck.ext3

Re: [uml-user] Question on UML Management

2005-04-26 Thread Anthony Brock
Rick, This is a security question in addition to a management question. For example, assume that one of your guest instances is eventually compromised. Will it matter if the attacker can freely access the file system of the other instances? If so, then you should look at creating separate accou

[uml-user] Question on UML Management

2005-04-26 Thread Lull, Rick
I'm currently working on getting multiple UMLs up and going on a single host.   What I am currently wrestling with now is the following:   Should each UML instance be run from a separate user account on the host or should you use a single user to launch all the UML instances?   I am t

Re: [uml-user] Witch patch for SKAS kernel?

2005-04-26 Thread Anthony Brock
Given how often this has come up recently, should we add something about the most "stable" or "suggested" kernel combinations to the wiki? Of course, this would require someone to keep it updated as new releases come out... :) Tony >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/26/05 01:56AM >>> > Hello, i have to

Re: [uml-user] SMP query

2005-04-26 Thread Vincent Guffens
Suresh wrote: hi, So in case of uml, if all the interrupts are being handled in the processor 0, hence softirq and tasklets are going to be handled in processor 0. If this is the case, then don't you think that smp functionality is lost here. Kindly tell me, is that the case even in 2.4.20 kerne

[uml-user] Compile Trouble with 2.4.27

2005-04-26 Thread Benjamin Cox
Hi. I'm having trouble compiling Linux (2.4.27) on my machine. I'm using the source: linux-2.4.27.tar.bz2 that I got from kernel.org and uml-patch-2.4.27-1.bz2 After I applied the patch I compiled it using the following commands and stuck with the defaults with the configuration: #make xconfig

Re: [uml-user] SMP query

2005-04-26 Thread Suresh
At 06:52 PM 4/26/2005, Vincent Guffens wrote: Suresh wrote: hi, So in case of uml, if all the interrupts are being handled in the processor 0, hence softirq and tasklets are going to be handled in processor 0. If this is the case, then don't you think that smp functionality is lost here. Kindly t

[uml-user] about the kernel switch

2005-04-26 Thread Jack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all . i am confused with the switches of the kernel . could someone tell me the ubd0s the "s" append means what ? jack -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: [uml-user] IP traffic not relayed by bridge ?

2005-04-26 Thread David Cannings
Shavian Shakes wrote: > I am trying to get multiple UML instances talk to each other using a > bridge. > Any help, pointers or doc/sites references will be a great help. Please try and see if http://edeca.net/articles/bridging/ helps you at all. You can do this with public or private interfaces

[uml-user] Re: Loadav always >1.0 (2.6.10 - 2.6.11.7)

2005-04-26 Thread Patrick Hess
Hi, I'm also fight with the "load-avg" issue. I found some mails regarding this on the mailing list - here something from my side about this... On Tuesday 19 April 2005 Blaisorblade wrote: > The patch I suggested to Chris was named, in the patch, > "update-process-times", however the name in my t

Re: [uml-user] Guest kernel chews up all CPU on VIA C3 Samuel2 in SKAS mode

2005-04-26 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Paolo On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:15 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2005 10:31, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > > Hi Paolo > > > > Thanks a lot for your response and suggestions! I think the handling of > > the fpx registers' absence is the key - see attached patch. But please > > rea

Re: [uml-user] SMP query

2005-04-26 Thread Suresh
hi, So in case of uml, if all the interrupts are being handled in the processor 0, hence softirq and tasklets are going to be handled in processor 0. If this is the case, then don't you think that smp functionality is lost here. Kindly tell me, is that the case even in 2.4.20 kernel. In the dair

Re: [uml-user] SMP query

2005-04-26 Thread Vincent Guffens
hi, with uml smp support, only processor 0 is processing interrupts. This is described there: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/diary.html (25 Jul 2002) It is quite old but I tried not so long ago and I could see in /proc/interrupt that is was indeed the case. cheers, Suresh wrote: Hi I

[uml-user] SMP query

2005-04-26 Thread Suresh
Hi I brought up uml with smp support. I used the vanilla kernel 2.4.20 and the patch uml-patch-2.4.20-1.bz2. I wrote a small kernel module. This module registers to netfilter hooks. and the netfilter callback function has the following callback functionality. if(smp_processor_id() == 0) spin_lock

[uml-user] Witch patch for SKAS kernel?

2005-04-26 Thread uml
Hello, i have to set-up a multi guest UML server. Is better skas-2.6.11-v8.patch or skas-2.6.11-v9-pre1.patch for the HOST Kernel ?   For Guests, can i use both 2.4.x and 2.6.x Uml kernels ? Or only 2.6.x ?   Thanks                                   Enrico