RE: [uml-user] a challenge: the perfect uml setup for a laptop development environment?

2006-05-30 Thread Anthony Brock
-Original Message- > Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> My second question is: can uml_switch help me make tuntap's on the fly >> and connect them all together? > > > Never mind. > > The crappy man page I was reading was nothing to: > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net

Re: [uml-user] a challenge: the perfect uml setup for a laptop development environment?

2006-05-30 Thread Nic James Ferrier
") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My second question is: can uml_switch help me make tuntap's on the fly > and connect them all together? Never mind. The crappy man page I was reading

Re: [uml-user] a challenge: the perfect uml setup for a laptop development environment?

2006-05-30 Thread Nic James Ferrier
") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sometime ago we had this conversation about how to do dynamic creation of UMLs, particularly for laptop development environments. Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > b) pre-setup a tap0 interf

Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Pranjal Kumar Dutta
Hi Tony,   Thanks for the info. I got it now. That means I need to create a separate COW file for each instance which will have the image of same root_fs.   Thanks again, Pranjal  On 5/30/06, Brock, Anthony - NET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You need to create a separate COW file (

RE: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
You need to create a separate COW file (probably based of the same original image) for each instance. Your customizations will then be written to the COW file while preserving the base image intact. This will also bypass the file locking issue.   Tony From: Pranjal Kumar Dutta [ma

Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Pranjal Kumar Dutta
But I am facing another problem. I have created the COW file and UML boots properly. But now when I boot another UML instance from the COW file I get the followimg error: It shows file is already locked by pid ...    #include <[EMAIL PROTECTED] um32-2.6.15-release-mod]$ ls -al total 622708 drwxr-

Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Pranjal Kumar Dutta
Hi,    I am now able to create  a COW filesystem through uml_mkcow utility and then booting the UML with ubd0=root_fs.cow successfully.   Thanks, Pranjal  On 5/30/06, Brock, Anthony - NET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you have write permissions to the current working directory? I don't k

RE: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
Do you have write permissions to the current working directory? I don't know what err=113 means, but the guest instance needs permissions to create the file on the local file system.   Tony From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pranjal Kumar DuttaSent