[uml-user] UML randomly hanging

2015-08-14 Thread Jon Foster
I'm using a stock Debian 7 AMD-64 SMP install on a 8 core Intel Xeon server, with 24GB of RAM. I'm using Debian's supplied UML kernel and tools. "uname -a", from within the UML returns: "Linux lamp1 3.2.54 #2 Thu Feb 6 22:33:28 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux". Using a command like: linux.uml "umid=$MAC

[uml-user] per-instance tmpfs backed memory file

2015-08-14 Thread Jon Foster
I'm kind of new to the UML thing. I've read that every instance of UML creates a temp file that represents the RAM of that instance. Its obvious that putting that in a "tmpfs" would be very good, but I don't want to mount a tmpfs on "/tmp", its used by too many other things and the size restriction