Re: [uml-user] KVM and UML

2007-02-23 Thread Nic James Ferrier
represented as a real process is. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'l

Re: [uml-user] UMLWiki

2006-11-02 Thread Nic James Ferrier
t > the new software. Thanks. This feels much quicker which resolves my complaint. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support we

Re: [uml-user] UML Wiki Updates?

2006-10-26 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Dave Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > happy to stay on though - its hosted on my companies server & has plenty > of grunt & bandwidth available. Just lacking a 'competent' admin! Are you sure?? Everytime I try and use it I have interminable wait times - jus

Re: [uml-user] Edgy Eft and UML (Upstart vs sysvinit)

2006-10-26 Thread Nic James Ferrier
this? Take the VM down and merge the cow and fs into a new fs. mount and chroot the new fs and add tty0 to the securetty and the list of terminals to start. (umount) and start the VM with the new fs. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tap

Re: [uml-user] UML Wiki Updates?

2006-10-25 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you think? Move it please. It's so slow that I can't even consider making updates. I would *really* like to contribute to a UML wiki. But I want to do it without dealing with TCP timeouts if possible. -

Re: [uml-user] uml on top of xen vm (report)

2006-10-25 Thread Nic James Ferrier
UML doesn't work on Xen at the moment? -- 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, security? Get stuff done quickly with

Re: [uml-user] proc filesystem ipaddress

2006-10-15 Thread Nic James Ferrier
t the list know when it goes live). I will also add the necessary to the patch so that it can be submitted to the kernel hackers (eg: interface iteration). -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs --- /scp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/local/virtualmachine

Re: [uml-user] proc filesystem ipaddress

2006-10-14 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 13 October 2006 05:33, Nic James Ferrier wrote: >> I've patched the ipv4 stack so that it does proc registration of the >> IP address for an iface. > Take a look at /proc/net/if_inet6, generated by I did take a

[uml-user] proc filesystem ipaddress

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
_create("ipaddress", S_IRUGO, &ipaddress_seq_fops)) +goto out_sockstat; + out: return rc; +out_ipadress: +proc_net_remove("sockstat"); out_sockstat: proc_net_remove("snmp"); out_snmp: -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk fo

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 >>

Re: [uml-user] mac address allocator

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
could help you eliminate the need to allocate (and coordinate) a static mac. > I am willing to bet against the 1 in 2^24 chance that there is an collision. > > (On a related note, we all do whenever we buy a new network card. > Every time a nic manufacturer makes 16,777,216 cards, they s

Re: [uml-user] list archive

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
ng-list expert. 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. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsel

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 ferr

Re: [uml-user] mac address allocator

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
substr($1,1,2)":"substr($1,3,2)":"substr($1,5,2)}' This is a good system but incomplete - how do you ensure that you don't get duplicates? It's very difficult to know what hw addresses are on the network (ie: what macs are already taken

[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

[uml-user] mac address allocator

2006-10-12 Thread Nic James Ferrier
macs that often) that a single server like this could easily handle a network of hundreds of machines. If anyone uses it let me know... my personal publishing systems (for code and such) are in a little bit of flux right now but it will go into source control eventually. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapse

Re: [uml-user] proc fs and ip address

2006-10-08 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wait - I think this specific case does not need any work with dentries, it is > different from the crash I described. I was giving generic suggestions - > afterwards I looked at sys_getdents and found that this one was easier. > Finish this patch this

Re: [uml-user] proc fs and ip address

2006-10-08 Thread Nic James Ferrier
similar > things). You mean finish it with vfs_readdir. I'll have a look. > Mconsole exec would also be useful for this, if it could return output - > maybe > redirecting to dev/console would do that (to test) or it could maybe be added > easily,

Re: [uml-user] proc fs and ip address

2006-10-08 Thread Nic James Ferrier
this is not possible given that the kernel knows this information. It's going to take me a lot longer to fix that problem though... registering stuff with proc fs is pretty impenetrable. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs

Re: [uml-user] proc fs and ip address

2006-10-06 Thread Nic James Ferrier
mconsole_reply(req, "Failed to open file", 1, 0); @@ -257,11 +287,12 @@ } out_free: -kfree(buf); +kfree(buf); out_close: sys_close(fd); out: -/* nothing */; +; +//filp_close(file

Re: [uml-user] proc fs and ip address

2006-10-05 Thread Nic James Ferrier
been traffic > recently. You need to know the UML's MAC, so I dunno if this is > helpful. I'm aware of this... but it's only if there has been traffic between guest and host recently. You need to be able to boot the guest and hang until you know it's IP without particularly c

Re: [uml-user] uml_mconsole exec

2006-10-05 Thread Nic James Ferrier
ing it out though. It's a really useful feature that >> should help me overcome my IP problem. Unfortunately it doesn't. I need to see the IP. I'm going to try and make a patch that will present directory contents via the mconsole proc command. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.taps

Re: [uml-user] uml_mconsole exec

2006-10-05 Thread Nic James Ferrier
-out/uml-mconsole_exec After that it should work. Thanks for pointing it out though. It's a really useful feature that should help me overcome my IP problem. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs -

[uml-user] proc fs and ip address

2006-10-05 Thread Nic James Ferrier
it can provide dir contents from proc as well. The final alternative is that I fix proc so that it contains: /net/dev/inet_address with a list of inet interfaces and their inet address. Does anyone here have an opinion about this?

[uml-user] uml on top of a xen vm?

2006-10-02 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Has anyone tried this? I just tried it and the booted UML kernel seems to hang after starting VFS. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence

Re: [uml-user] 2.6.17 on a 2.6.16 host kernel problems

2006-10-01 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For UML you should enable CONFIG_HOST_2G_2G, if UML is recent enough that it > is used by SKAS0. With -bb1 you have more detailed settings > (CONFIG_HOST_VMSPLIT_*). Bingo! Thanks. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk

[uml-user] 2.6.17 on a 2.6.16 host kernel problems

2006-09-30 Thread Nic James Ferrier
exit status KSYM.tmp_kallsyms1.S nm: '.tmp_vmlinux1': No such file No valid symbol. make: *** [.tmp_kallsyms1.S] Error 1 Can anyone give me a clue? -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for

Re: [uml-user] UBUNTU 6.06 root-fs

2006-09-18 Thread Nic James Ferrier
ntu dd if=/dev/zero of=./myubuntufs bs=100M count=4 mkfs.ext3 ./myubuntufs mkdir myubuntufs_mnt mount -t ext3 -o loop myubuntufs myubuntufs_mnt rsync -a myubuntu/* myubuntufs_mnt umount myubuntufs_mnt mv myubuntufs my_uml_filesystem -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.

Re: [uml-user] DHCP-client causes MAC-address to reset

2006-09-15 Thread Nic James Ferrier
t host name - sent dhcp client identifier - sent dhcp vendor identifier -- 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, security? G

Re: [uml-user] CPU manage

2006-09-13 Thread Nic James Ferrier
ng the kernel thread processes. It does _seem_ like it has an effect. -- 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, secu

Re: [uml-user] DHCP-client causes MAC-address to reset

2006-09-04 Thread Nic James Ferrier
a mac from a pool that dhcp maintains and change it. This could _probably_ be done with ISC DHCP client/server without changing the code (or at least the C). -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs -

Re: [uml-user] DHCP-client causes MAC-address to reset

2006-09-04 Thread Nic James Ferrier
ctly how I do allocation in my 2 different setups. -- 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, security? Get stuff do

Re: [uml-user] DHCP-client causes MAC-address to reset

2006-09-04 Thread Nic James Ferrier
s a complex task though so it will take me a little while before I get round to it. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web

Re: [uml-user] DHCP-client causes MAC-address to reset

2006-09-04 Thread Nic James Ferrier
ac on the guest command line is done something like this: guestkernel ... eth0=tuntap,,fe:fd:0:0:0:1,192.168.0.254 -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Using Tomcat but n

[uml-user] cow files are version control systems

2006-07-24 Thread Nic James Ferrier
library for your app? No need to add build time checks anymore. Just start version controling the entire install image. Are there any ideas about how cow files can be made more portable, more tolerant of underlying fs changes? -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell

[uml-user] utility of swap files for virtual machines?

2006-07-19 Thread Nic James Ferrier
file. Does this make sense? -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll ge

Re: [uml-user] starting uml from initscripts?

2006-06-28 Thread Nic James Ferrier
I can stop this behaviour I don't immediately see how to start > a UML from the initscripts. gnu screen -- 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, security? Get stuff done quickly

Re: [uml-user] Moving from UML to standalone

2006-06-01 Thread Nic James Ferrier
imply forget this but it would be really nice since > I've got a pretty complex system setup. A uml file system is most normally an ext3 (or some other fs) image plus a cow file (for local writes). You could just export the filesystem. Alternately, standard backup tools would do the job.

Re: [uml-user] [V NEWBYE] uml hangs after mounting root fs

2006-05-31 Thread Nic James Ferrier
UML in a terminal with it's console set to terminal, eg: umlkernel ... con0=fd:0,fd:1 and then send us the output that appears in the terminal it would be a help. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs -

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 c

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

2006-05-30 Thread Nic James Ferrier
the new uml manually and ping to the host OS but DHCP allocation inside the UML does not work. My second question is: can uml_switch help me make tuntap's on the fly and connect them all together? Nic Ferrier --- All the advantag

Re: [uml-user] Guest networking

2006-05-17 Thread Nic James Ferrier
in as root for initial testing, otherwise after ssh logins it > can't do the needed network setup. > That can be lifted as explained in the man page with authorized_keys (you > allow selected users to login as root just to run some comman

Re: [uml-user] Guest networking

2006-05-16 Thread Nic
will all be purely > guest-to-guest links; I don't need the host to be attached at this point in > the > network. The segments do need to be completely isolated, so that I can > simulate > failed links and dynamic routing. > > Any suggestions would

Re: [uml-user] Guest networking

2006-05-16 Thread Nic
John Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Nic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You could just set up VPNs between the VMs using PPP over SSH. >> > > I'm not sure if that would work in this case, I need simple interfaces that I > can use with t

Re: [uml-user] Guest networking

2006-05-16 Thread Nic James Ferrier
") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Nic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> --- Nic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Yo

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

2006-05-07 Thread Nic
Nic said: >> I tried some things with dnsmasq last night and I couldn't actually >> get it to stop listening for DHCP on 0.0.0.0. Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded: > > That doesn't really matter; from /etc/dnsmasq.conf: > > # On systems whic

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

2006-05-06 Thread Nic
and I couldn't actually get it to stop listening for DHCP on 0.0.0.0. However, there is another reason for using a separate DHCP server. It's tied to the tap interface being used for the UMLs. When you take the interface down the dhcp server should go down as well. Nic

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

2006-05-05 Thread Nic
answer to blaisorblade. dnsmasq only has one config option for defining the listening address so I can either have my dns only on the private lan and dhcp working or have my dhcp on the public lan with all the problems that my bring. Note: by pub

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

2006-05-05 Thread Nic
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Btw, can't that be done via sending an hostname (which probably works more > easily with clients like dhcpcd, default in Gentoo) and making the server > associate IPs with hostnames? I don't dhcp can _match_ on a sent hostname but it can on a dhcp-cl

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

2006-05-04 Thread Nic
can forward from the UML to the host, you can't reach other hosts on the host's network; in other words "why do you need a bridge?". Certainly, my UMLs don't seem to be able to do that. Nic --- Using Tomcat but need to d

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

2006-05-04 Thread Nic
onfig file write host matches like this: host example_uml_host { option dhcp-client-identifier "someuml"; fixed-address 192.168.1.1; option host-name ... ... } Nic --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Ne

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

2006-05-04 Thread Nic
an be > found in /proc/cmdline) and setup networking according to them,instead of > using DHCP. I want autoconfig. Nic --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-in

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

2006-05-04 Thread Nic
hat you say does not make sense. hotplug, kernel > and modules don't give any load on "laptop network hardware". Especially not > hotplug. And running a bridge isn't an heavy (resource-wise) task at all. By "loaded" I meant "initialized" and not "hea

[uml-user] mounting cow files outside UML

2006-05-04 Thread Nic
Is it possible to mount a cow file and it's backing fs as a loop back filesystem on the host? ie: shut down your VM and mount the VMs filesystem on the host in order to write something into it? Nic --- Using Tomcat but need to do more?

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

2006-05-04 Thread Nic
liant ideas to make this kind of ad-hoc environment easier to handle? Nic Ferrier --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Downlo

Re: [uml-user] Running MySQL inside of UML

2006-04-25 Thread Nic
> Apr 25 21:47:28 xx.xx.xx.xx mysqld[882]: threads_connected=0 > > > Did anyone run into these problems before? Sorry, if this is a mysql > issue. Did you turn NPTL off? Nic Ferrier --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

[uml-user] Re: Many UMLs on one machine and IP address allocation

2006-04-09 Thread Nic
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:54:58PM +0100, Nic wrote: >> But I have found a solution that satisfies all my constraints and I >> thought I'd note it here (shall I put it on the wiki as well?) > > The wiki is a fine place

Many UMLs on one machine and IP address allocation (was Re: [uml-user] tun/tap devices and uniqueness)

2006-04-09 Thread Nic
quot;; fixed-address 172.31.2.102; option host-name "umlinstance.tapsellferrier.co.uk"; } I think this solution is rather good. It certainly is working for me. Nic Ferrier --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a gro

[uml-user] tun/tap devices and uniqueness

2006-03-24 Thread Nic
all using different tun devices that they would get different IPs (each of the tun devices in the bridge has a different HWAddr). Can someone explain how to make the UML side of the tun devices have unique HWAddrs? Nic Ferrier --- This SF.Ne

[uml-user] another disc failure with UML

2006-02-07 Thread Nic Ferrier
s to me as I write this that it might be an console handling error. My console is on stdin. Any ideas? Nic --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search

Re: [uml-user] Re: problems with UML on 2.6

2006-01-16 Thread Nic Ferrier
EV_UBD` It did... I couldn't figure out the problem at all... so I started from scratch once more. And now I've fixed it. I think that I may have left a host based loop back mount to the UBD open while I mounted it in the UML and that of course is bad. Anyway... it's working now.

Re: [uml-user] problems with UML on 2.6

2006-01-16 Thread Nic Ferrier
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 13 January 2006 14:40, Nic Ferrier wrote: >> Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:44:50PM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: >> >> I'm getting this problem as well.

Re: [uml-user] problems with UML on 2.6

2006-01-13 Thread Nic Ferrier
") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:40:04PM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: >> Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But if I do:

Re: [uml-user] problems with UML on 2.6

2006-01-13 Thread Nic Ferrier
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:44:50PM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: >> I'm getting this problem as well. But mine seems to be related to udev >> not registering the device. > > Yeah, there's something missing in the ubd driver.

Re: [uml-user] problems with UML on 2.6

2006-01-12 Thread Nic Ferrier
everything it needs but it doesn't seem to build the UDB devices. I'm a bit lost by the whole thing. Nic Ferrier --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the ne

Re: [uml-user] UML on 2.6.12 or .14 and ssh server: funny problem

2006-01-08 Thread Nic Ferrier
") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:47:06PM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: >> make mrproper >> make menuconfig ARCH=um > > Yeah, and

Re: [uml-user] UML on 2.6.12 or .14 and ssh server: funny problem

2006-01-04 Thread Nic Ferrier
") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:20:07PM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: >> socketpair(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0, 0x9fc00e08) = -1 EAFNOSUPPO

[uml-user] UML on 2.6.12 or .14 and ssh server: funny problem

2006-01-03 Thread Nic Ferrier
cketpair\r\n", 32monitor_socketpair: socketpair) = 32 Clearly something strange is going wrong with ssh. Now, I can chroot to the same file system and run the ssh daemon and it doesn't fubar. So is this a problem with UML in some way? Anybody have a clue