[uml-user] proc filesystem ipaddress

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
I know this is not UML specific... but maybe the kernel hackers here can answer this anyway, since I'm doing it to make life with UMLs easier. I've patched the ipv4 stack so that it does proc registration of the IP address for an iface. Currently I'm just getting the details for eth0. I'm using

Re: [uml-user] list archive

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:08:57AM +0100, Nic James Ferrier wrote: >> Ok. I didn't really mean that... I meant that there's a lot of spam >> being delivered via the list. That's bad - the list should stop it as >> much as possible. > > It's stopping a lot.

Re: [uml-user] list archive

2006-10-12 Thread Jeff Dike
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:08:57AM +0100, Nic James Ferrier wrote: > Ok. I didn't really mean that... I meant that there's a lot of spam > being delivered via the list. That's bad - the list should stop it as > much as possible. It's stopping a lot. Just the spammers are getting more clever than

Re: [uml-user] mac address allocator

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
"Ryan Finnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Not if it boots off a different host it won't. > > You quoted everything in my message except the part where I > essentially say ", unless it's on a different host". Apologies. I didn't mean to misrepresent you. > Besides, the automatic generation

Re: [uml-user] list archive

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Flavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, of course, but sometimes our email-address is visible. > I usually see my mail address when I'm watching a list Archive. > So spammer can get it and use for their aims. > > but.. It's only my opinion.. I'm not a mailing-list expert. Ok. I didn't really me

Re: [uml-user] mac address allocator

2006-10-12 Thread Ryan Finnie
On 10/12/06, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This combines the umid you expect you assign to the instance with the > > hostname of the host. That way, the mac address will be the same each > > time it boots, > > Not if it boots off a different host it won't. You quoted everything

Re: [uml-user] list archive

2006-10-12 Thread Flavio
Yes, of course, but sometimes our email-address is visible.I usually see my mail address when I'm watching a list Archive.So spammer can get it and use for their aims.but.. It's only my opinion.. I'm not a mailing-list expert. 2006/10/13, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Flavio <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [uml-user] list archive

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Flavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think spam is very boring.. unfortunately we can do anything. Nonsense. If we hosted the list somewhere else we could get built in spam filtering. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs ---

Re: [uml-user] mac address allocator

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
"Ryan Finnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I took a simpler route for pseudo-random non-varying mac address > generation. Here you go: > > echo $(hostname)${UMID} | md5sum | \ > awk '{print "00:08:93:"substr($1,1,2)":"substr($1,3,2)":"substr($1,5,2)}' > > This combines the umid you expect you as

Re: [uml-user] list archive

2006-10-12 Thread Flavio
I think spam is very boring.. unfortunately we can do anything.2006/10/13, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is the list archive broken?There is also a *lot* of spam coming in here.-- Nic Ferrierhttp://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk   for all your tapsell ferrier needs---

Re: [uml-user] Boot problem

2006-10-12 Thread Flavio
OK! Thank you. I checked my packages status and I already have busybox installed on my Gentoo Linux.What can I do now?2006/10/12, Antoine Martin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> The other thing you can try is to make a simple initrd file with some >> busybox >>> I don't have any idea to do that. I do

[uml-user] list archive

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Is the list archive broken? There is also a *lot* of spam coming in here. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services,

Re: [uml-user] mac address allocator

2006-10-12 Thread Ryan Finnie
On 10/12/06, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my quest for the perfect network setup for a VM here is a piece of > code that will allocate mac addresses from a pool. I took a simpler route for pseudo-random non-varying mac address generation. Here you go: echo $(hostname)${UMID}

Re: [uml-user] UML Compile Problem

2006-10-12 Thread Luis Useche
Hi Guys,Do anybody have idea of my problem?On 10/10/06, Luis Useche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Christopher,I tried the mrproper rule several times and still Nothing. On 10/10/06, Christopher S. Aker < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Luis Useche wrote:> Hi Flavio,>> I am still getting the same error: "a

Re: [uml-user] Boot problem

2006-10-12 Thread Antoine Martin
> The other thing you can try is to make a simple initrd file with some >> busybox > > > I don't have any idea to do that. I don't know procedures of any type in > this case. You can download one ready-made here: http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/busybox/

[uml-user] mac address allocator

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
In my quest for the perfect network setup for a VM here is a piece of code that will allocate mac addresses from a pool. It's not that polished yet. So far you can only allocate based on the pool: fe:fd:12:aa:bb:cc where aa:bb:cc are the pool. However, that is 17 million different mac addresse

[uml-user] chronic illnesses after cured.

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Re: [uml-user] Absolute paths in COW files

2006-10-12 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:25:32AM -0700, John Zavgren wrote: > It appears that a COW file and its backing file are not portable... > I.e., if I move a pair from one directory to another, the COW file no > longer works. When I examine the boot messages when such a failure > occurs, there is an indi

[uml-user] Absolute paths in COW files

2006-10-12 Thread John Zavgren
Greetings: It appears that a COW file and its backing file are not portable... I.e., if I move a pair from one directory to another, the COW file no longer works. When I examine the boot messages when such a failure occurs, there is an indication (driven by the COW file) that the path name to the

Re: [uml-user] Boot problem

2006-10-12 Thread Flavio
Thank you so much Christopher,I tried to add init="/sbin/init -i" to my kernel command line, but boot process hangs.[...]Initializing software serial port version 1 ubda: unknown partition table  ubdb: unknown partition tablekjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 secondsEXT3-fs: mounted filesystem

Re: [uml-user] Boot problem

2006-10-12 Thread Christopher Marshall
I have seen this message from /sbin/init before when I was experimenting with writing my own initrd.gz in slackware. It didn't actually have anything to do with UML. I am not sure why you would be getting this error message seeing as how you are not using an initrd.gz file. You can get this m