Re: [uml-user] Properly shutting down a VM, Host resource usage

2013-02-05 Thread Tony Su
Of course! Thx, Tony On Feb 4, 2013 7:05 PM, "Lakshmipathi.G" wrote: > Hi Tony - > Did something like 'init 0' works ? > > Sometime back,I faced few problems after shutdown with 'init 0' file > system became read-only ! > more info here : > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2011-A

Re: [uml-user] Properly shutting down a VM, Host resource usage

2013-02-05 Thread Tony Su
Update - I found that the init command was inaccessible in all running VMs (weird) but this led me to look closer at what was available in /sbin. Unfortunately at least in the openSUSE image, any power off/shutdown/halt commands failed because they in turn were calling apps which did not exist. I

Re: [uml-user] Properly shutting down a VM, Host resource usage

2013-02-05 Thread Lakshmipathi.G
If your host machine is also openSUSE ,then you can probably mount host's /sbin/ on the virutal machine's /mnt/ with a command like - UML VM#mount none /mnt -t hostfs -o /sbin Now you have access to host's binary from within virtual machine. You can copy some missing files. Though these copied bi

Re: [uml-user] Properly shutting down a VM, Host resource usage

2013-02-05 Thread Tony Su
Thx for the interesting idea of mounting a Host mountpoint within a VM. Might work in special situations but I can immediately anticipate problems between distros and even distro versions because of - init scripts may or may not exist - degree of systemd integration. Something as simple as a syste