Re: [uml-user] UML networking setup

2012-02-06 Thread clownix
Hello, 172.20.113.137 for your uml would work, as it is in the same lan as your host, but you need to bridge your host's interface to the tap you have just created. Then if this worked, both your host and your uml would be able to access to your adsl router, BUT I have never been able to bridge (

Re: [uml-user] The max instance of uml is limited by memory and disk size ?

2011-12-12 Thread clownix
I do not know exactly how much shm is taken in that case, just try to launch the uml it an see the percent taken from shm. UML has to have shm, this is all I know. > clow...@clownix.net wrote: >> >> Hello, >> For UML machines, you have to look carefully at the /dev/shm value with >> df, if the us

Re: [uml-user] The max instance of uml is limited by memory and disk size ?

2011-12-12 Thread clownix
I do not remember when I first had this problem, but I made cloonix, a virtual network and I have always tried to have many machines in one PC, uml, kvm or lxc machines in a cloonix network. The uml need shared memory because the processes inside a vm are processes of the host and they have to "s

Re: [uml-user] The max instance of uml is limited by memory and disk size ?

2011-12-11 Thread clownix
Hello, For UML machines, you have to look carefully at the /dev/shm value with df, if the used up /dev/shm gets too high, new UML cannot be launched. To look at the value you have: df -h /dev/shm/ To change it to 2 giga: mount -t tmpfs shmfs -o size=2g /dev/shm Look again: df -h /dev/shm

Re: [uml-user] UML, threads and memory usage

2011-12-06 Thread clownix
Sorry! I was referring to the SKAS3/4, I forgot the number. So are the SKAS3/4 still alive ? I have never tried them, I was waiting for them to get into the mainline. The normal uml machine is already very good, but if it can be even better, it would be good news. > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:40

Re: [uml-user] UML, threads and memory usage

2011-12-06 Thread clownix
I did not read everything carefully but I thought that with the skas0, I would see only one uml linux process in the host for the whole uml machine, and also that it would not take the /dev/shm memory anymore. Sometimes, with some weak PC or a bad /dev/shm config, if you put too many machines, th

Re: [uml-user] UML, threads and memory usage

2011-12-06 Thread clownix
Is there still a chance that the skas0 patch will end up in the mainline? > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 07:48:40PM +0100, Riccardo Murri wrote: >> Sorry again for resurrecting an old thread, but I each time I look >> into this issue I realize that I haven't quite understood the details... > > You

Re: [uml-user] Can i run uml in the background ?

2011-12-02 Thread clownix
Hello, Screen is often used with uml: For a linux uml binary and uml_basic_squeeze as root file system, you can use screen as below: screen -dmS name_you_want linux ubda=uml_basic_squeeze The screen starts as a daemon, and to bring it back: screen -r name_you_want Once you are in the scree

Re: [uml-user] UML linux doesn't like Ctrl-Z ?

2011-07-28 Thread clownix
The usual way is to use "screen" to be able to put the console in the background and bring it back. > Hello, > > if I start an UML at the command line with a script and later try to put > that > script into a background job, then the guest system either cored directly > : > > tfoerste@n22 ~ $ st

Re: [uml-user] What is causing this error?

2011-06-15 Thread clownix
To build a virtual network, cloonix is far easier to use than vnuml! > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:10 AM, richard -rw- weinberger < > richard.weinber...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Naman Muley >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Can anybody help me with this error: >> > ..

Re: [uml-user] Running UML on a x86_64

2011-06-10 Thread clownix
Hello Ianas, I have made machines with make ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 on debian squeeze and on ubuntu natty with kernel 2.6.39 but I am sure that the 2.6.39.1 works also. You can try the machines at clownix.net. Also in the downloadable cloonix there are scripts to help create uml machines, kernel and f

Re: [uml-user] UML Host Lockout

2011-04-02 Thread clownix
With cloonix it is easy: Start your cloonix network on PC A drag-drop your uml machines. Put the cloonix access tools (patched ssh and scp) on PC B using the patched ssh will lead the ssh connection through a cloonix tcp (ciphered) socket into an uml in PC A. Cloonix was made to be totally isol

Re: [uml-user] Running 32bit binaries in a 64bit uml kernel

2011-03-09 Thread clownix
I do the following: make mrproper ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 cp ${KCONFIG} .config # make menuconfig ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 make ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 make modules_install ARCH=um SUBARCH=i386 INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$HERE To make running uml machines, you can look in the how_to_create_vm/uml/.. direct

Re: [uml-user] help getting slip networking going

2010-12-25 Thread clownix
If you use cloonix, tell me if you feel it has got good perfs. From here I get 700KiloOctets/seconde to download the kernel from kernel.org into an uml machine in cloonix. What do you call "not hot perfs" ? Of course the rest of the cloonix network is much better for local transmission with scp be

Re: [uml-user] help getting slip networking going

2010-12-24 Thread clownix
Hello, I have no direct answer for the slip (I thought it war slirp) but the cloonix-8.01 embeds an uml openwrt backfire and an uml lenny and has its own slirp to go out to the internet without going through the host'ip stack. see at cloonix.net or clownix.net for the set of tools to get a running

Re: [uml-user] Newbie problems with UML

2010-08-06 Thread clownix
Hello, UML is in the current kernel and is working, I have never used the ska patch, it is not necessary, so it may not be maintained. I believe that the basic UML is maintained but KVM is taking the lead as kernel virtualisation solution. UML works well and must not be dismissed so easily. The clo

Re: [uml-user] Newbie problems with UML

2010-08-06 Thread clownix
There are many 64 bits UML guest working at the http://cloonix.net website. Cloonix-net is a framework that helps in managing virtual machines, both UML and KVM. The framework and guest filesystem for 64 bits machines have been tested on Fedora 13 64bits and Ubuntu 10.04 64bits. For UML machines

Re: [uml-user] slirp\'s redir option not working with UML

2010-06-04 Thread clownix
Cloonix also has ssh/scp to uml, but I have patched ssh and use the resulting software to get access to the unix socket going into my slirp version. This way: cloonix_ssh>unix socket>slirp daemon>unix socket->uml_cloonix_switch--->UML eth interface Cloonix has the ssh comfort b

Re: [uml-user] slirp\'s redir option not working with UML

2010-06-04 Thread clownix
10 à 18:06 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit : > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 23:28, clownix wrote: > > I must tell you that you can have an UML ubuntu 10.04 in the > > cloonix environment at http://cloonix.net > > And the cloonix environement has a slirp integrated inside its > &

Re: [uml-user] slirp\'s redir option not working with UML

2010-06-01 Thread clownix
Hello, I must tell you that you can have an UML ubuntu 10.04 in the cloonix environment at http://cloonix.net And the cloonix environement has a slirp integrated inside its own network and you can surf on internet from your UML ubuntu plug-and-play. Note: due to libssl used in cloonix, most user

Re: [uml-user] uml filesystem

2010-04-06 Thread clownix
Hello, You can also have UML openwrt8.09.2, ubuntu karmic, debian sid and fedora 12 at: http://cloonix.net/siteweb/index_download.html Openwrt is shipped with an associated software (cloonix_net) ubuntu, karmic, debian and fedora go with the linux_uml_binary to be found at the same place. I supp

Re: [uml-user] Skas3 patches for recent Ubuntu kernels

2010-03-12 Thread clownix
Is there a chance to have this patch on vanilla kernels one day ? I do not want to compile my host's kernel, but the "nice performance improvement" would be welcome. Le vendredi 12 mars 2010 à 20:39 +1030, Simon Knight a écrit : > Apologies: I have since found the patches in the mail list arch

Re: [uml-user] X in uml?

2009-12-28 Thread clownix
I do not understand the need here, any application such as wireshark, firefox ... can be run graphically with ony a ssh and xforwarding, why exactly would we need a link to the real hardware? Le lundi 28 décembre 2009 à 14:47 +0700, Antoine Martin a écrit : > Anselm Lingnau wrote: > > Rodrigo Bar

Re: [uml-user] X in uml?

2009-12-23 Thread clownix
xterm and such are very easy to have with ssh and xforwarding, but I have never tried to have a complete desktop. Le mercredi 23 décembre 2009 à 17:11 -0200, Rodrigo Baroni a écrit : > Hello everybody, > > Does anybody knows if is doable to run X in uml (not Xnest or > similars) ? > > Rodrigo

Re: [uml-user] linux-2.6.32 uml Segmentation fault

2009-12-20 Thread clownix
The problem is associated to a kernel config, here is the config: Le samedi 19 décembre 2009 à 12:33 +0100, clownix a écrit : > Hello > For the 2.6.32 kernel there are 2 problems: > > 1: Compile error, this patch works for it: >

[uml-user] linux-2.6.32 uml Segmentation fault

2009-12-19 Thread clownix
Hello For the 2.6.32 kernel there are 2 problems: 1: Compile error, this patch works for it: diff -Naur old_linux-2.6.32.1/security/keys/keyctl.c linux-2.6.32.1/security/keys/keyctl.c --- old_linux-2.6.32.1/security/keys/keyctl.c 2009-12-14 18:47:25.

[uml-user] Many UML machines

2009-11-11 Thread clownix
Hello, At http://clownix.net there are 4 UML machines ready to run in the cloonix virtual network: OpenWrt(There is also a KVM instance for OpenWrt) Fedora 11 Debian sid Ubuntu jauty All those machines come with a working olsr and ospf demo. For each of these machines, the "howto make it" is

[uml-user] UML machines

2009-11-11 Thread clownix
Hello, Version 3.0 of cloonix-net has just been delivered: http://clownix.net You can have with the cloonix-3.0 download an OpenWrt machine ready to be used, and you can include 3 more machines in your virtual network by downloading them separately: Fedora 11 Debian sid Ub

[uml-user] Ubuntu Karmic and UML

2009-11-09 Thread clownix
Hello, I have tried to run a Karmic made from debootstrap and the start of the ubuntu has changed, and it does not work. I have reverted to the previous Jaunty ubuntu machine. Has anybody managed to make the Karmic start with UML? Note that the start of Karmic has changed and is not more asynchroni