Re: [uml-user] SIOCIFFLAGS error

2005-08-12 Thread Arvind Gopalan
Paolo, I had /dev/net/tun as writable (666) and used the command line with eth0=tuntap<.>. Could anything else on my file system in any way be responsible for this?. I used tunctl to bring up the host tap0 adapter.. Also I should correct the fact that the error was SIOCSIFFLAGS not SIOCIFFL

Re: [uml-user] Hardware Requirements -Some Questions about UML by a Newbie

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Dike
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:14:42PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > What is the /proc/meminfo and/or /proc/slabinfo content? Which is the culprit > item? In meminfo - free memory is small, and PageTables is huge In slabinfo - no large slabs Jeff ---

Re: [uml-user] Hardware Requirements -Some Questions about UML by a Newbie

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 12 August 2005 17:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > thanks a lot to Jeff and Nix for the answers. That helped a lot. > Nonetheless, I do not understand fully two things: > Is the Opteron in 32 bit Mode as stable as say a Pentium or a Xeon? I mean, > is there a no-go on the Opte

Re: [uml-user] Hardware Requirements -Some Questions about UML by a Newbie

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 12 August 2005 01:22, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:17:03PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - Opteron Support > > I shall setup several services on a Dual Opteron 250. I came across some > > issues with Opterons and I wonder if Opterons are ok for UML? Are they > > sta

Re: [uml-user] Hardware Requirements -Some Questions about UML by a Newbie

2005-08-12 Thread eric_leitner
Hi there, thanks a lot to Jeff and Nix for the answers. That helped a lot. Nonetheless, I do not understand fully two things: Is the Opteron in 32 bit Mode as stable as say a Pentium or a Xeon? I mean, is there a no-go on the Opterons? Ist the memory limit for the guests or for the hosts? I m

Re: [uml-user] YUM only wants to download x86_64 not i386 in my UML

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 08 August 2005 15:16, Phill Wombat wrote: > Hi List, > > Everyone is going to have this: > yum proceeds to download the entire FC4/x86_64 distro! even though the > UML is i386. > uname -a > Linux uml-test.localdomain 2.6.12-bb10-skas0 #1 Sun Aug 7 00:11:09 EST > 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_

Re: [uml-user] compiling problems with uml-2.6.12-bb10-skas0.patch.bz2

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 11 August 2005 23:54, Sven Hessler wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to compile the guest kernel using linux-2.6.12.3 (from > kernel.org) and the patch: uml-2.6.12-bb10-skas0.patch.bz2 Enabled SKAS mode too? It should compile anyway, but that could be the cause. And those symbols should be defi

RE: [uml-user] ile: unable to allocate pty/tty pair

2005-08-12 Thread M Taha Masood
nops not using devfs Taha --- Ernie Fontes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you still using devfs? > > Ernie > > > > -Original Message- > > From: M Taha Masood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 7:49 PM > > To: Ernie Fontes; > user-mode-linux-user@lists.sou

Re: [uml-user] compiling problems with uml-2.6.12-bb10-skas0.patch.bz2

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 12 August 2005 09:20, Mikael Löfstrand wrote: > Hello, > > Sven Hessler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to compile the guest kernel using linux-2.6.12.3 (from > > kernel.org) and the patch: uml-2.6.12-bb10-skas0.patch.bz2 > > > > but all I got were the following errors: > > > > -- snip --

Re: [uml-user] Hostfs: Restricting access

2005-08-12 Thread uml
Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:04:46PM +0200, uml wrote: > >>I'm trying to restrict the access for hostfs. When starting the >>uml-kernel with the option "hostfs=/some/directory" I can mount this >>directory with the command "mount none /mnt/host -t hostfs". But I am >>still able to

Re: [uml-user] sleeping process xxxxx got unexpected signal : 11

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 11 August 2005 14:25, Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > Hi, > > I am on Ubuntu 5.04 (kernel 2.6.10). I have downloaded the 2.6.10 kernel > from kernel.org and did the following: You don't need to use matching host and guest kernels, so use 2.6.12 (and you may also try patches from my homepage, t

Fwd: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-12 Thread Marco Garcês
>On my Gentoo /dev is a ramfs/tmpfs filesystem, so make sure you give the guest >enough memory... I gave 2gb of swap to my guest!!! I'm now going in other direction. Instead of building from stage 3 and then, tar everything, decided to mount directly the root_fs on a loop, and go stage3 from their

Re: [uml-user] Re: Problems with ARCH=um and .config -file

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:04, Väisänen Teemu wrote: > Thanks Mikael! > > This is still a problem: > > >>Problem is, that if I save .config -file in menuconfig/xconfig etc., > > >>lines which caused errors before, disappear. Without ARCH=um > > >>-parameter they work fine. > > > > I _think_ that

RE: [uml-user] ile: unable to allocate pty/tty pair

2005-08-12 Thread Ernie Fontes
Are you still using devfs? Ernie > -Original Message- > From: M Taha Masood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 7:49 PM > To: Ernie Fontes; user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [uml-user] ile: unable to allocate pty/tty pair > > Ernie , your mail

Re: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 19:32, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > [ oops ] > > > > * The "tar" command failed with error: > > > > rd/c6d27p4: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > > tar: rd/c6d27p5: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > > tar: rd/c6d27p6: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > >

Re: [uml-user] Howto install UML for 2.6.8.1-kernel

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 08 August 2005 12:52, Väisänen Teemu wrote: > Hi. I have couple of questions about UML. > > I have Fedora core 3 and 2.6.9-1.667 kernel installed in my computer. > I have tried to read UML installation guides, and If I have understood > right, that kernel has UML support. Well, sources f

Re: [uml-user] SIOCIFFLAGS error

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 19:32, Arvind Gopalan wrote: > I have tried configuring the eth0 on my UML guest a > few times and every time get the same error once I try > to bring up the eth0 on the guest -> SIOCIFFLAGS: > Permission denied error. > I have followed all the steps to configure a host >

Re: [uml-user] system freezes with 2.6.12.3-skas3-v8.2smp

2005-08-12 Thread Christopher S. Aker
Sebastian Böhm wrote: The two SMP machines compeletely freeze every two or three days. The single P4 machine has no problem. On each machine run ~ 10 uml guests (1GB filesystem, 128MB ram each, no /dev/anon, no tmpfs) Sounds like the very problem I posted about on uml-devel: http://marc.theai

[uml-user] system freezes with 2.6.12.3-skas3-v8.2smp

2005-08-12 Thread Sebastian Böhm
Hi, I switched to 2.6.12.3-skas3-v8.2 (host) and 2.6.12.3-bs9 (guest) on three machines, two of them SMP. The two SMP machines compeletely freeze every two or three days. The single P4 machine has no problem. On each machine run ~ 10 uml guests (1GB filesystem, 128MB ram each, no /dev/anon,

Re: [uml-user] compiling problems with uml-2.6.12-bb10-skas0.patch.bz2

2005-08-12 Thread Mikael Löfstrand
Hello, Sven Hessler wrote: Hi, I tried to compile the guest kernel using linux-2.6.12.3 (from kernel.org) and the patch: uml-2.6.12-bb10-skas0.patch.bz2 but all I got were the following errors: -- snip -- arch/um/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x78da): In function `linux_main': arch/um/kernel/um_ar