Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-06-09 Thread Pranjal Kumar Dutta
I am now successfully runninf 4 UML instances in a virtual network with COW files. It is a very good feature as my original filesystem remains intact and only COW files are written into. And still I can access all data on my original root_fs without wasting any disk space (that would have required

Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-06-05 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 20:07, Brock, Anthony - NET wrote: > You need to create a separate COW file (probably based of the same > original image) for each instance. Your customizations will then be > written to the COW file while preserving the base image intact. This > will also bypass the file loc

Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-06-05 Thread Anthony Brock
> -Original Message- > On Tuesday 30 May 2006 20:07, Brock, Anthony - NET wrote: > > You need to create a separate COW file (probably based of the same > > original image) for each instance. Your customizations will then be > > written to the COW file while preserving the base image intact.

Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Pranjal Kumar Dutta
, 2006 10:57 AMTo: Brock, Anthony - NETCc: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines  But I am facing another problem. I have created the COW file and UML boots properly. But now when I boot another UML instance from t

RE: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:57 AMTo: Brock, Anthony - NETCc: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines But I am facing another problem. I have created the COW file and UML

Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Pranjal Kumar Dutta
But I am facing another problem. I have created the COW file and UML boots properly. But now when I boot another UML instance from the COW file I get the followimg error: It shows file is already locked by pid ...    #include <[EMAIL PROTECTED] um32-2.6.15-release-mod]$ ls -al total 622708 drwxr-

Re: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Pranjal Kumar Dutta
Hi,    I am now able to create  a COW filesystem through uml_mkcow utility and then booting the UML with ubd0=root_fs.cow successfully.   Thanks, Pranjal  On 5/30/06, Brock, Anthony - NET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you have write permissions to the current working directory? I don't k

RE: [uml-user] Problems in sharing filesystems between Virtual Machines

2006-05-30 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
Do you have write permissions to the current working directory? I don't know what err=113 means, but the guest instance needs permissions to create the file on the local file system.   Tony From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pranjal Kumar DuttaSent