Re: [uml-user] the current Fedora UML recipe

2008-03-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:14:32AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/User_Mode_Linux_on_Fedora > > > > comments? i'll try to add more later today. > > There is anothe

Re: [uml-user] some COW questions

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:15:25AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 2) once i establish a COW file for a given backing file, i can use > > "chmod" to protect that backing file from inadvertant changes, yes? > > that s

[uml-user] some COW questions

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ed i'd forgotten an important executable or shared lib, i'd just stop the guests, mount and modify the usr.img file, then start the guests again, right? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Train

Re: [uml-user] how to ensure a root filesystem is always "read-only"?

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t removing *my own* write permission and starting UML sessions under my normal user account? wouldn't that have exactly the same effect? i don't see the need for bringing other user accounts into it. rday -- ================ Rober

[uml-user] how to get a UML session with multiple filesystems?

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
l of them. and, if i use multiple filesystems, would i then have multiple COW files per sharable filesystem? or am i making this way too difficult? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Ped

[uml-user] how to ensure a root filesystem is always "read-only"?

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
r COW-based UML sessions based on that root FS, correct? so is there any way to stop me from making that kind of mistake? actually, that's my only question for now, more later. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting

Re: [uml-user] looking for network-ready fedora 8 kernel and root fs

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
te class C net for your UML sessions; hence the need for NAT and MASQUERADE and so on on the host side. -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: H

Re: [uml-user] looking for network-ready fedora 8 kernel and root fs

2008-03-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:39:50AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > a) once i run the "uml_mconsole" command on the host, is there a > > way to verify the result of that operation? running "ifconfig" > > doesn&#

[uml-user] ok, the current state of the UML intro wiki

2008-03-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
art on the more advanced topics. once i figure them out, of course. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca

[uml-user] the current Fedora UML recipe

2008-03-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/User_Mode_Linux_on_Fedora comments? i'll try to add more later today. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom,

Re: [uml-user] looking for network-ready fedora 8 kernel and root fs

2008-03-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:14:09PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > consider, as a single example, the suggestion on that page that you > > can configure the eth0 device thusly if you have a running UML > > session: > > >

Re: [uml-user] looking for network-ready fedora 8 kernel and root fs

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ve it a shot, thanks. maybe not tonight but i'll get to it. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca

Re: [uml-user] looking for network-ready fedora 8 kernel and root fs

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [uml-user] looking for network-ready fedora 8 kernel and root fs

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:15:09PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > so where can i find those two objects? as i understand it, for me > > to set up networking, either the kernel or the root filesystem has to > > have networking cap

Re: [uml-user] looking for network-ready fedora 8 kernel and root fs

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
y host and my guest OS, as simply as possible? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.c

Re: [uml-user] ubd0 versus ubda??

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ed, and the numbers are deprecated. works for me. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcour

[uml-user] looking for network-ready fedora 8 kernel and root fs

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
which networking is ready to go? all of the examples i've tried so far don't work. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will l

Re: [uml-user] ubd0 versus ubda??

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
he bugs under fedora and can help me write it, that would be just ducky. i'll have another specific request for assistance shortly. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel P

Re: [uml-user] ubd0 versus ubda??

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ot;n must be in the range 0 to 7." it says nothing about the possibility of a "ubda". rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, wi

[uml-user] ubd0 versus ubda??

2008-03-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ferences mean, yet they all seem to work identically. help? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://