[uml-user] x86_64 - 2.6.12+bs9 Bingo!! FC4/64 host FC4/32 guest

2005-08-03 Thread Phill Wombat
My test case now works!! with init=/bin/sh I can now do ls and get a working listing! Now to run up the standard init. > Again, not needed. With FC4 guests, it may be useful to do this: > ./linux LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/obsolete/linuxthreads It is very useful. Ah - can't find the modules.dep. I

Re: [uml-user] Hard limit on number of telnet sessions

2005-08-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
On 8/4/05, Jim Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Craig O'Keefe wrote: > > Is anyone aware of a limit to the number of telnet sessions UML can > > support. We are seeing our >60 never come up. Does anyone know of where > > this is configured? > > Each telnet-rlogin-ssh session

Re: [uml-user] host/guest setup to debug with frame pointers

2005-08-03 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:12:57PM -0700, Alexei Potashnik wrote: > >Debugging in SKAS (SKAS0 or SKAS3) mode works much better... > > How is it better? So far I only see the extra headache of patching > the host. skas0 requires no host support. > Btw, does 2.6.13pre that Jeff mentioned contain b

Re: [uml-user] COW files and block devices

2005-08-03 Thread Jason Clark
Here is the output trying to use /dev/md1 as my cow file and /mnt/cow/rootfs.cow as my backing file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt# linux ubd0=/dev/md1,/mnt/cow/rootfs.cow ... [42949373.53] Console initialized on /dev/tty0 [42949373.53] Initializing software serial port version 1 [42949373.57000

Re: [uml-user] COW files and block devices

2005-08-03 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:23:58PM -0500, Jason Clark wrote: > Neither of these seem to work, just get a kernel panic about not being > able to find a rootfs. THe backing file will boot on its own as will the > md0 device, but I cant seem to get the cow file relationship working. Any > thought

Re: [uml-user] Hard limit on number of telnet sessions

2005-08-03 Thread Jim Carter
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Craig O'Keefe wrote: > Is anyone aware of a limit to the number of telnet sessions UML can > support. We are seeing our >60 never come up. Does anyone know of where > this is configured? Each telnet-rlogin-ssh session requires a pseudo-tty master+slave, and a 2.4.x kernel for

Re: [uml-user] host/guest setup to debug with frame pointers

2005-08-03 Thread Alexei Potashnik
I followed your and Jeff's lead about new gdbs being out-of-sync with UML and downgraded gdb to 5.3.90 (the one that came with FC1). Everything works great now. Thanks. But again, even 2.4 kernels *has* frame pointers (just verified - even if it's not enabled inside .config, but just from arch/u

[uml-user] COW files and block devices

2005-08-03 Thread Jason Clark
I have been using linux software RAID block devices as my files for my UML hosts. Instead of using linux ubd0=file.fs I use linux ubd0=/dev/md0 The performance increase is outstanding, but I have run into one small snag. I am trying to migrate over to using COW files on a fresh server, but I

[uml-user] Hard limit on number of telnet sessions

2005-08-03 Thread Craig O'Keefe
Title: Hard limit on number of telnet sessions Is anyone aware of a limit to the number of telnet sessions UML can support. We are seeing our >60 never come up. Does anyone know of where this is configured? Thx Craig O'Keefe

Re: [uml-user] 2.6 woes

2005-08-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 03:08, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:25:53PM -0700, Jonathan Shufelt wrote: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "ubd0" or unknown-block(0,0) > > You have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD enabled? Also check you've enabled the root fs type you're using... (i.e. ext3, reis

Re: [uml-user] 2.6 woes

2005-08-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 00:36, Brock, Anthony - NET wrote: > Does the guest filesystem have entries for the '/dev/ubd[0-9]' devices? That shouldn't cause problems at *that* point - if the root FS isn't mounted the kernel isn't going to read those nodes anyway, for now. Still, that's needed wh

Re: [uml-user] host/guest setup to debug with frame pointers

2005-08-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:07, Alexei Potashnik wrote: > Could somebody, please, recommend a stable combination of > the host/guest that was successfully debugged with gdb. > > I've looked through blaisorblade's site that this mailing list archive > and tried the following combinations: > > 1. Fi

Re: [uml-user] Questions for updating a course

2005-08-03 Thread Frank Sorenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jurgen Defurne wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:38:16AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > >>On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: >>>b) Where can I find a UML patch for the 2.6.9 kernel ? >> >>In the 2.6.9 kernel tree, but you pro

Re: [uml-user] Questions for updating a course

2005-08-03 Thread Jurgen Defurne
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:38:16AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: > > a) In what year has work begun on User Mode Linux ? > > 1999 > > > b) Where can I find a UML patch for the 2.6.9 kernel ? > > In the 2.6.9 kernel tree, but you probabl

Re: [uml-user] Questions for updating a course

2005-08-03 Thread Jonathan Shufelt
Jurgen Defurne wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: Hello, all, I am updating a course I am giving at the end of the month and I need some questions resolved for my text and for my materials. This is mainly due to the sad state that the UML web site is in (

Re: [uml-user] Questions for updating a course

2005-08-03 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: > a) In what year has work begun on User Mode Linux ? 1999 > b) Where can I find a UML patch for the 2.6.9 kernel ? In the 2.6.9 kernel tree, but you probably don't want to use it. Jeff ---

Re: [uml-user] Questions for updating a course

2005-08-03 Thread Jurgen Defurne
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: > Hello, all, > > I am updating a course I am giving at the end of the month and I need some > questions resolved for my text and for my materials. This is mainly due to the > sad state that the UML web site is in (I will give a try t

[uml-user] Questions for updating a course

2005-08-03 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Hello, all, I am updating a course I am giving at the end of the month and I need some questions resolved for my text and for my materials. This is mainly due to the sad state that the UML web site is in (I will give a try to help updating some documentation, but that will only be from November on