Re: [uml-user] Can skas3 and grsec live together?

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:45:56AM +0700, Mikado wrote: > I wonder if I should run UML with skas3 patch in grsec system? I have no personal experience, but from what I've heard, there are some conflicts which would need to be resolved. However, there are no fundamental reasons both can't be in th

Re: [uml-user] Kernel Not Syncing: Bug!

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:29:17AM -0500, Jeremy Anderson wrote: > guest machines randomly crash. They aren't sending me anything via > syslog (I've configured them to log to the host machine), and they don't > appear to log anything to STDOUT. I can make machines crash with the > message in t

Re: [uml-user] Kernel Not Syncing: Bug!

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:58:08PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are using sparse file for swap files I don't think it will take more than tenth of that space. Swapping onto a sparse file is really a bad idea. What happens if the host filesystem fills up and the UML tries to swap? The

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

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
> In the host side of tap device the mac address seems to be random > but it seems like in guest side the mac address is derived from > first given ip-address Correct. > and when using dhcp it's always 0.0.0.0 which > causes it to be fe:fd:00:00:00:00. The problem is that I can't seem > to be ab

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

2006-09-15 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you're DHCP-ing, you need to provide a MAC on the command line > because that's the only way that the DHCP server can identify the > client. No it isn't. DHCP can arbitrate between clients based on MAC or: - sent host name - sent dhcp client identifie

Re: [uml-user] glibc 2.4 + amd64 = tls breakage?

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:47:51AM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote: > I've upgraded a Gentoo amd64 box to the latest gcc (4.1.1) and glibc > (2.4-r3). glibc 2.4 is "nptlonly" (at least on gentoo?) The host filesystem or the UML filesystem was upgraded? If the latter, can you make it avilable for me

Re: [uml-user] new in UML

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:16:36PM +0530, Suman Adak wrote: > I am a just new user in UML. Can anybody please tell or point out any > link ,how do i develop device driver under UML?. i complied UML from > source and working fine. That depends very heavily on the type of driver.

Re: [uml-user] CPU manage

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:16:58PM +0200, Paolo Carpo wrote: > I would like to know if exist any documents about how UML manage the CPU: how > the CPU of the real PC is devided between the istances of the UML VMs. UMLs are normal processes, so they are scheduled just like any other process on the

Re: [uml-user] glibc 2.4 + amd64 = tls breakage?

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:09:15AM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote: > I thought it might be GCC 4.1, so I tried 2 things: > * build with gcc 3.4 on another host > * switch to gcc 3.4 on that system for the kernel build > The resulting (statically linked) kernel runs fine on x86 but not at all > on the

Re: [uml-user] glibc 2.4 + amd64 = tls breakage?

2006-09-15 Thread Antoine Martin
> > UML running in SKAS0 mode > > remove_umid_dir - actually_do_remove failed with err = -2 > > Add stderr=1 to the command line and see what happens. Nothing happens, same output as above. > Also, if a 32-bit binary behaves differently on a 64-bit system than a > 32-bit one, I would say that's a

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

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:32:36PM +0100, Nic James Ferrier wrote: > Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When you're DHCP-ing, you need to provide a MAC on the command line > > because that's the only way that the DHCP server can identify the > > client. > > No it isn't. DHCP can arbitrat

Re: [uml-user] glibc 2.4 + amd64 = tls breakage?

2006-09-15 Thread Antoine Martin
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 12:59 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:47:51AM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote: > > I've upgraded a Gentoo amd64 box to the latest gcc (4.1.1) and glibc > > (2.4-r3). glibc 2.4 is "nptlonly" (at least on gentoo?) > > The host filesystem or the UML filesystem