Re: [uml-user] UML+Mounting host fs + chroot in the mounted host drive

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Richardson
Teto wrote: > My current technique is to boot the kernel to test with a custom initrd > that mounts the host filesystem, chroot to this mounted directory so > that I can use my host binaries (custom ip route binaries already > installed in my host etc...). I've seen no thread pres

Re: [uml-user] UML+Mounting host fs + chroot in the mounted host drive

2013-08-26 Thread Teto
Thanks for your answer. > I have been doing this since 2001 :-) > I've tried to extract this system into a separate package, see: > https://github.com/mcr/uml-network-testing-infrastructure That's really cool to put these files online. Moreover I intend to use UML for network testing as well so it

Re: [uml-user] UML+Mounting host fs + chroot in the mounted host drive

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Richardson
Teto wrote: >> Yes, you could do this. I use hostfs for /, and I just mount >> /usr/share from the host. > Could you please detail the procedure since I get lost in your files. > And the man page looks ambiguous to me. First how do you launch your > uml kernel: just host$