[uml-user] Hangs at boot time

2005-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
I'm running into problems booting UMLs at present, with a regular (though not 100% consistent) hang at the point where the root filesystem is mounted. The last line printed is: VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly. On the (fairly rare) occasion that the boot continues to conclusion, the n

Re: [uml-user] Debian root_fs images

2005-12-11 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
Hi, Thanks again for your messages! Blaisorblade wrote: I do not have X11 on my server. I also tried it with the DISPLAY environent pointing to my workstation's X11 server, but I got another error then. Test if you can open an xterm directly first, it's not so easy (at least you need to use x

Re: [uml-user] Making the most of ubds?

2005-12-11 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 11 December 2005 17:32, Joel Palmius wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: > > Also, the iowait is on the host or on the guest? I fear on the host, but > > I'd hope not. > No, the wait was on the guest. The guest could have 100% wait while the > host only had a few percent, l

Re: [uml-user] Making the most of ubds?

2005-12-11 Thread Joel Palmius
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: Also, the iowait is on the host or on the guest? I fear on the host, but I'd hope not. No, the wait was on the guest. The guest could have 100% wait while the host only had a few percent, leading me to think that stuff simply got queued up somewhere a

Re: [uml-user] Making the most of ubds?

2005-12-11 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 08 December 2005 18:01, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:06:28PM +0100, Joel Palmius wrote: > > Are there any general recommendations for making throughput on UBDs more > > efficient? Such as kernel settings, recommended filesystems..? > > > > Doing an "emerge sync" inside