Re: [uml-user] AMD64 segfaults

2006-04-04 Thread David Lang
y it's not seeing skas3, I don't know. /proc/mm should exist, for one thing. If that's not there, something went wrong with your build. is this in the 2.6.16-rc1 patch? or does it still require an external patch. David Lang ---

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-29 Thread David Lang
/~blaisorblade/binaries/2.6.16-bb1/) I see guest patches at http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/guest/uml-2.6.16-bb1/ is there a similar set of patches for the host? or is this for both? David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 01:42, David Lang wrote: yOn Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: I foolishly attempted to startup 25 uml instances on one system (dual 252 opterons with 8G of ram, each um instance getting 256M) what I found was that they

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:09, David Lang wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/ sorry, the host is a dual Opteron 252 with 8G of ram running 2.6.16 (which I understood

Re: [uml-user] occasional errors on startup

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 23:33, David Lang wrote: I'm getting two types of errors show up once in a while 1. occasionally on startup the UML instances report 'unable to open an Initial console', this is happeing ~10% of the time, but

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
t's mmapped from a file in $TMPDIR (normally /tmp). Ok, I'll define $TMPDIR to be /dev/shm (which debian mounts a tmpfs on) and try this again David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting lang

[uml-user] occasional errors on startup

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
ror -11' I get this error after the uml instance if fully booted and running, but after this error uml_mconsole cannot connect to them. David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that exte

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 01:58, Christopher S. Aker wrote: David Lang wrote: > I upped the pid_max value to 128000 to give me some headroom there (each > of the first 18 uml instances will end up running ~3600 processes when > they finis

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
after things stabilize the results look basicly the same (the exact numbers vary slightly, but the top symbols remain the same should I forward this to linux-kernel as well? David Lang On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: rebooting my system with idle=poll and profile=2 I get the following

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-27 Thread David Lang
schedule 0.1203 I'll do another run after things finish stabalizing. David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and m

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-27 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Jeff Dike wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:27:39 -0500 From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one h

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-27 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Christopher S. Aker wrote: David Lang wrote: what could I do to assist in tracking down what is causing the contention? Are you running a skas3-patched host kernel? You didn't mention if you were running in 32bit mode. I don't believe there's a skas

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-27 Thread David Lang
yOn Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: I foolishly attempted to startup 25 uml instances on one system (dual 252 opterons with 8G of ram, each um instance getting 256M) what I found was that they seem to be getting in each others way a LOT (just on system boot), vmstat on the host is

Re: [uml-user] Bootproblem with 2.6.16

2006-03-27 Thread David Lang
g 2.6.16 without these problems. David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking

[uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-27 Thread David Lang
es until I get in on monday, so I'll give more details then unless I'm told that I am being silly to try to start this many on one system. David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that

Re: [uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-26 Thread David Lang
atch it) thanks for helping me out with this, and sorry for the flood of questions. David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live

Re: [uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-24 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 00:45, David Lang wrote: to test my compile environment I copies the config from your kernel to my dev box, did a make ARCH=um oldconfig (accepting all the defaults) and tested the results. You did that in the 32-bit chroot

Re: [uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-24 Thread David Lang
x27;m replying to, full config attached) I don't see any obvious uml related differences (other then the fact that I disabled TT mode to enable static linking per your prior suggestion), any suggestions? David Lang On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, David Lang w

Re: [uml-user] newbe questions

2006-03-23 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 04:34, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 02:09, Nix wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Lang uttered the following: Debian there is trying to be smart anyway and helping the

Re: [uml-user] uml and nonstandard memory splits?

2006-03-23 Thread David Lang
skas0, skas3 or TT. Is this something uml can support? I don't know about other non-standard memory configs, but there is an explicit config option when compiling a uml kernel to support the 2G/2G memory split. David Lang --- This S

Re: [uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-23 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: Btw, you can also download pre-built UML binaries from my homepage (see signature), and this is useful even to determine what's going on (e.g. say that binary work, your one doesn't, let's compare con

Re: [uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-23 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: Btw, you can also download pre-built UML binaries from my homepage (see signature), and this is useful even to determine what's going on (e.g. say that binary work, your one doesn't, let's compare configurations! Or a couple of months ago

Re: [uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 00:55, David Lang wrote: is there a way to build a i386 uml kernal on amd64? I have a 64 bit debian build on my main box, but I need to run a uml instance useing a 32 bit debian system image. I've attempted to use the

Re: [uml-user] dedicated network interfaces?

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
prior to that terms like 'no IP stack running on the host' were being thrown around. David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. A

Re: [uml-user] newbe questions

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 02:09, Nix wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Lang uttered the following: when you do ifup debian immediatly attempts to startup sendmail (apparently by doing make as you see here). if you can't do name resolution until

Re: [uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: compiling a uml kernel on a i386 and trying to run in resulted in 'file not found' (shared libraries not there for the 32 bit software on the 64 bit system). so I did a chroot into a directory with a 32 bit system image in it and attempted

Re: [uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: is there a way to build a i386 uml kernal on amd64? I have a 64 bit debian build on my main box, but I need to run a uml instance useing a 32 bit debian system image. I've attempted to use the same uml kernel that I have been useing for my ea

[uml-user] i386 uml kernel on amd64

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
oops complaining about a missing init. I'm currently trying to see if recompiling my host kernel to support ia32 binaries makes a difference, but I suspect that it won't (it may allow me to compile a uml kernel on a 32 bit machine and use it for this, that will be my next tes

Re: [uml-user] newbe questions

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Nix wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispered secretively: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:46, David Lang wrote: Configuring network interfaces...make: /etc/mail/Makefile: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `/etc/mail/Makefile'.

Re: [uml-user] newbe questions

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Jeff Dike wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:46:57AM -0800, David Lang wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: hostfs as root is not well supported. good to know, I'll avoid useing it for now. is it on the roadmap to be supported? No, it can't work as

Re: [uml-user] dedicated network interfaces?

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
for the host of these uml's to be as minimal as possible to reduce any vunerabilities that are introduces by connecting this host across different security environments. David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking

Re: [uml-user] dedicated network interfaces?

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:58, David Lang wrote: Ok, not that I have interfaces showing up inside uml (2.6.15.6 didn't work, but 2.6.16 does) I have another question. is it possible to dedicate physical network interfaces to particula

[uml-user] dedicated network interfaces?

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
weaken the seperation of the different networks. David Lang --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime deve

Re: [uml-user] newbe questions

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:46, David Lang wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: Ok, this is not hostfs-related likely. Checking root file system... fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) fsck.ext2: No such device or address while trying to open /dev

Re: [uml-user] newbe questions

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Anthony Brock wrote: Quoting David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I also get several thousand lines of error message like the following line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl

Re: [uml-user] newbe questions

2006-03-22 Thread David Lang
KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console These errors can

[uml-user] newbe questions

2006-03-20 Thread David Lang
tl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDGKBTYPE called Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Thanks for the assistance