Re: [uml-user] Running User Mode Linux in fedora 15

2011-08-04 Thread Gordon Russell
ow I wasnt doing something silly this time. Gordon On 4 August 2011 21:43, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Gordon Russell wrote: >> Did the livecd have 2.6.40-4 as the host kernel? It is just a feeling >> but I thought it was working ok on my de

Re: [uml-user] Running User Mode Linux in fedora 15

2011-08-04 Thread Gordon Russell
PM, Gordon Russell wrote: >> Recompiled it on an up to date 64 bit fedora 15 machine. Thats much >> easier, but unfortunately just the same error message when I run it. >> Disabling SELINUX makes no difference btw. >> > > On a FC15 LiveCD UML works fine. &

Re: [uml-user] Running User Mode Linux in fedora 15

2011-08-04 Thread Gordon Russell
ot status = 2943 ) = 51 exit_group(1) = ? On 4 August 2011 19:06, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Gordon Russell wrote: >> 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 >> My user mode linux kernels are all compiled statically on a fedora 32 >> bit machine. &g

Re: [uml-user] Running User Mode Linux in fedora 15

2011-08-04 Thread Gordon Russell
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Gordon Russell wrote: >> Thoughts? > > FC15 x86_64 or x86_32? > Which host kernel are you using? > > -- > Thanks, > //richard > -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas,

[uml-user] Running User Mode Linux in fedora 15

2011-08-04 Thread Gordon Russell
Still having problems with everything fedora right now. I have now noticed that Fedora 15 will not run User Mode Linux.. Running a uml kernel with sensible parameters (or even no parameters) results in: Locating the bottom of the address space ... 0x1 Locating the top of the address space

Re: [uml-user] Cannot find a stable version

2011-06-24 Thread Gordon Russell
ill let you know how I get on. > Gordon. > On 24 June 2011 18:33, richard -rw- weinberger > wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Gordon Russell >> wrote: >>> Hi All. >>> I have been using user mode linux since 2004, but I have decided to >>>

Re: [uml-user] Cannot find a stable version

2011-06-24 Thread Gordon Russell
it a whirl. Interestingly with security= set to something other than selinux I dont see the crash. I am assuming most people run with selinux disabled. I will let you know how I get on. Gordon. On 24 June 2011 18:33, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Gordon Russell wro

[uml-user] Cannot find a stable version

2011-06-24 Thread Gordon Russell
Hi All. I have been using user mode linux since 2004, but I have decided to update my images to fedora 15. However I cannot get a stable uml kernel to run this image. For instance 2.6.39.1 crashes when I try "yum update". The errors on the console are shown at the end of this email. I get the same

[uml-user] Compiling user mode linux 2.6.30 in fedora 11

2009-06-18 Thread Gordon Russell
I notice that a few people on the web, plus myself, have found it impossible to compile user mode linux with fedora 11. It gets pretty near the end, before dying with: CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 /usr/bin/ld:arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds:1: ignoring inva

Re: [uml-user] UML kernel takes 100% CPU

2008-12-09 Thread Gordon Russell
Did you disable things in cron? updatedb for instance could do this. Have a look through the crontab and related directories and you may spot something. Just a thought... Gordon. 2008/12/9 lanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Running under Fedora 8 32-bits I started running some UMLs. At > one

Re: [uml-user] 64 bit Linux issue

2008-10-30 Thread Gordon Russell
I would still get you to update the host kernels to something newer. That way you are sure it is not a kernel version think. 64 bit support is much better as the guest kernels get newer. Gordon. > Case 1) Host: 32 bits (2.6.24). Guest, UML Kernel: 32 bits. > (linux-um-2.6.18.1-bb2-xt-4m) > Case 2

Re: [uml-user] 64 bit Linux issue

2008-10-30 Thread Gordon Russell
Hi. Having made the swap from 32 to 64 bit hosts myself this month, I have found them to be very reliable and without the problems you seem to be happening. You are using a really old kernel. I suggest upgrading both the host and guest kernels to something more modern. Previously I had been using

Re: [uml-user] Help with in.telnetd console access

2008-09-23 Thread Gordon Russell
>> I have an intermittent rare problem where sometimes I cannot connect >> after disconnecting. I get console messages "no one waiting for port". >> I am using a guest based on 2.6.18. > > I check this on a fairly regular basis, and haven't seen this happen > in a long time. Can you check somethin

Re: [uml-user] Help with in.telnetd console access

2008-08-21 Thread Gordon Russell
Thanks for the link. I will give that telnet server a go and see if it is any different. Just to let you know, I do currently allow users to access their guests via a tap device, and in general it works really well. However, some of my practical exercises get the users to configure their own firew

[uml-user] Help with in.telnetd console access

2008-08-20 Thread Gordon Russell
I am wondering if anyone could offer me some advice on telnet access to the UML console. I run linuxzoo.net, which has very poor console access for users right now (it relies on network logins direct to the guests). Im trying to fix that... I am using something like "con1=port:5800". I have in.tel

[uml-user] Documentation: Use of con:port without hangs in a chroot

2007-11-21 Thread Gordon Russell
After playing with con:port, and its use in a chroot, I wonder if those with versions of UML documentation which refer to con:port would find the following two pieces of information useful: --- *** Avoiding the hang during boot for telnet :port consoles *** Some sites suggest that :port will work

[uml-user] /proc/mm in 2.6.23

2007-10-14 Thread Gordon Russell
I was about to update my host kernels from the somewhat dated versions I am using. However, blaisorblade's host patches only seem to go to 2.6.20-v9-pre9. From what I can tell, the current stable kernel is 2.6.23. I did try to patch from the 2.6.20 version I found, but a few of the hunks failed.

Re: [uml-user] uml / vmware connection

2007-05-28 Thread Gordon Russell
Create a tap device for your uml machine as normal. In vmware, configure a vmnet device to use the tap device. Personally I have been working with virtualbox instead of vmware for my non-linux emulations, as this allows the tap device to be used directly instead of having the vmnet layer of vmware

Re: [uml-user] Using vde/vde_switch with UML

2007-03-02 Thread Gordon Russell
Wierdly I was just looking at the package for the vlan support. There is no documentation on this, but scanning the source code you use the telnet interface to the switch and from there the process is menu driven. Looks like you can have both tagged and untagged. However, there is a comment in the

Re: [uml-user] Using vde/vde_switch with UML

2007-03-02 Thread Gordon Russell
I have looked at it myself, but not tried it. In the readme it does talk about UML, for instance: "with UML you can: (1) use "-unix /tmp/uml.ctl" for vde-switch (2) use "eth0=daemon,,/tmp/vde.ctl" for UML" Thus it seems to use the daemon interface of ethx= on the kernel command line. O

Re: [uml-user] A question on iptables

2006-11-14 Thread Gordon Russell
You can see that your default policy is ACCEPT, so your rule: > iptables -A FORWARD -p icmp -m limit --limit 1/m -j ACCEPT will accept the packets in the limit, and if it is out of the limit the packet is accepted by the default policy. > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) Instead you can do: iptab

Re: [uml-user] x86_64 with skas3

2006-10-20 Thread Gordon Russell
been so long since I updated my uml kernels (my current kernel is 2.6.7), I am wondering now which patches I should be applying? Any thoughts? On 20/10/06, Gordon Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have exactly the same problem compiling on a 32 bit machine. > Looking at the ig

Re: [uml-user] x86_64 with skas3

2006-10-20 Thread Gordon Russell
I have exactly the same problem compiling on a 32 bit machine. Looking at the ignored errors, they seem to be about things which have already gotten into the kernel. However, the tls.c patch seems to be incompatable and different in a way that I was too scared to adapt. On 20/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [uml-user] Performance issue with 2.6.9

2005-11-29 Thread Gordon Russell
Any chance you still have cron running? It might kick in after an hour or so. On 29/11/05, Wang, Chip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been experiencing some performance problems with my UML setup. > I had six guests running. The performance was very good immediately after > the boot.

Re: [uml-user] CPU time

2005-08-17 Thread Gordon Russell
On 17/08/05, Jean-Michel Caricand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to limit CPU time for a guest instance. What is the best method ? > ulimit would limit total CPU time if thats what you are after. I run a programme in the background which monitors all the instances and renices them dynami

Re: [uml-user] SBUML status with SKAS

2005-06-17 Thread Gordon Russell
> > Is anyone still involved with sbuml? > > SBUML is one technique for saving and restoring running UML processes. > Can you describe for me the case where this is a useful feature? > For me I am researching virtual processor farms as a replacement for fixed beuwolf clusters, where nodes can mig

[uml-user] SBUML status with SKAS

2005-06-17 Thread Gordon Russell
Is anyone still involved with sbuml? SBUML is one technique for saving and restoring running UML processes. I would love to get this working with the current 2.6 SKAS kernels. I am thinking about picking this code up to see if it can be fixed, or using one of the other core dump techniques out the

Re: [uml-user] resize the rootfs

2005-04-23 Thread Gordon Russell
Any chance you are running mkfs on a fedora or redhat machine? I ran into a problem with this, where fedora/redhat has patched ext3 with some new features, which then break non fedora guests. I think the new features are related to large filesystems. If so download reiserutils and use reiserfs ins

[uml-user] UML machines for free

2005-04-20 Thread Gordon Russell
I dont really know how many people would be interested, but I have set up a cluster of free-access user-mode-linux machines. To use one, you currently need to go through a bit of user account registration (select Just Interested as your programme). Once done, you press a button to queue for the nex

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-25 Thread Gordon Russell
> > Last I tried (in 2.4), sparse swapfiles were a no-no. Well I definitely wont do that! Its not really a problem anyway, as I can monitor this based on IO disk activity (I suppose). --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read ho

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-25 Thread Gordon Russell
> With 15 guests per host, could you be running yourself out of physical > memory? Nope. 64 MB per host. I have not had more than 10 per machine so far, so thats 640MB used out of 1 GB. I am using tmpfs too... Yes, swap is huge (300 MB). But it never gets used unless you do a yum upgrade (which

Re: [uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-24 Thread Gordon Russell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I am having real problems with what appears to be scheduling issues, > > and I am running out of ideas... > > Why do you think they are scheduling issues? Thats a good question! More or less just speculation. If someone does something CPU heavy, and I nice them to 20

[uml-user] UML scheduling

2005-02-24 Thread Gordon Russell
I am having real problems with what appears to be scheduling issues, and I am running out of ideas... We have a cluster of 5 machines, each running about 15 UMLs. Things seem to run great for a while, then performance of the UMLs seems to die for a while. My solution to this was to look at all ru