[uml-user] can't compile client >2.6.12

2005-11-23 Thread Chris
1 make[1]: *** [arch/um/kernel/skas] Error 2 make: *** [arch/um/kernel] Error 2 Btw, is the >2.6.12 series ready for production-environments? If not, which is the last known stable version you can suggest? Thx and greets, Chris --- This SF.

[Fwd: Re: [uml-user] can't compile client >2.6.12]

2005-11-23 Thread Chris
oops, wrong button ;) Original Message Subject:Re: [uml-user] can't compile client >2.6.12 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:54:32 +0100 From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Blaisorblade wrote: >On Wed

Re: [Fwd: Re: [uml-user] can't compile client >2.6.12]

2005-11-24 Thread Chris
Blaisorblade wrote: >On Thursday 24 November 2005 02:19, Blaisorblade wrote: > > >>On Wednesday 23 November 2005 22:07, Chris wrote: >> >>>kidding aside, i asked because i was wondering why the host crashed >>> >>> >>Ok, that'

Re: [Fwd: Re: [uml-user] can't compile client >2.6.12]

2005-11-25 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: >Blaisorblade wrote: > >>Yep, this crash wasn't described in your original mail, so please add all >>details about the compilation environment, the host kernel, the hardware and >>the scenario triggering the host crash (if any). >> >>

Re: [Fwd: Re: [uml-user] can't compile client >2.6.12]

2005-11-25 Thread Chris
l analysis. > > good to know, as i was not sure we're to start at all >You have a > >*) 2.6.12 (the bug could have been fixed) > > >*) with SKAS (it may be at fault) > > too insecure, so isn't really an option >*) compiled with hardened to

Re: [Fwd: Re: [uml-user] can't compile client >2.6.12]

2005-11-25 Thread Chris
Blaisorblade wrote: >On Saturday 26 November 2005 01:41, Chris wrote: > > >>>Let me think - you refer to the SKAS3 patch merged with grsec? >>> >>> > > > >>>You have a >>> >>>*) 2.6.12 (the bug could have been

Re: [uml-user] UML on non x86/ppc

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Emerson
orking once (many years ago, around 2.4.0ish, I think), but is way out of date now (eg this was before the SKAS patches, when ptrace was the only option). Regards, Chris - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM)

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Frey
orkaround. > For more details please have a look at this post: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/28/245 I am so far unable to reproduce the corruption with this workaround patch. So it looks like we have at least one fix. Thank you very much to everyone w

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Frey
} > dev->end_sg = 0; > dev->request = NULL; > > -- This patch does not fix the corruption issue for me. I applied the patch to 2.6.35.5, and reproduced the "deleted inode referenced" errors in both a gentoo and ubuntu guest OS. I

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Frey
http://marc.info/?l=user-mode-linux-user&m=126883932731656&w=2 I've added him to the CC. - Chris -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify applic

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Frey
-around for the real bug). You're probably right, and I'm quite willing to help test further patches to help get to the bottom of this. - Chris -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances an

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Frey
#x27;t consider the fact that blk_end_request() now internally > updates the current position of the request, so if restart happens > after some of part of the request is complete it will end up adding > the offsets multiple times. I think slightly modifying it to track > the current position instea

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Frey
ferenced: 484932 EXT3-fs error (device ubda): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 484932 - Chris -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 &

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

2010-10-08 Thread Chris Frey
xt3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 964786 EXT3-fs error (device ubda): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 964815 ... - Chris -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1

[uml-user] USB and libusb inside UML

2010-10-14 Thread Chris Frey
Hi, Is it possible to use libusb inside UML to access USB devices? I see a note on the website regarding a patch for this from 2001, so I'm assuming it is possible, but I'm having trouble turning any USB options on in the kernel config. Any tips appreciated. Thank

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption

2010-10-15 Thread Chris Frey
+ dev->rq_pos += sg->length >> 9; > dev->start_sg++; > } > dev->end_sg = 0; I tested this patch, on 2.6.35.5, as heavily as I could today, and was unable to reproduce the filesystem corruption. Seems

Re: [uml-user] [PATCH] sched: provide scheduler_ipi() callback in response to smp_send_reschedule()

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Metcalf
there. But do bump the interrupt > -* profiler count in the meantime. > -*/ > __get_cpu_var(irq_stat).irq_resched_count++; > + scheduler_ipi(); > > return IRQ_HANDLED; > } Acked-by: Chris Metcalf

[uml-user] getcap/setcap in UML?

2011-09-19 Thread Chris Frey
(Operation not supported) Is this true? Are file capabilities not available in UML? I'm using a 2.6.35.5 based kernel. Thanks, - Chris -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a defin

Re: [uml-user] getcap/setcap in UML?

2011-09-19 Thread Chris Frey
xbf9444ac, 20) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported) write(2, "Failed to get capabilities of fi"..., 85Failed to get capabilities of file `/usr/libexec/pt_chown' (Operation not supported) ) = 85 Full output below. - Chris [root@fedora15 ~]# strace getcap /usr/libexec/pt_chow

Re: [uml-user] getcap/setcap in UML?

2011-09-19 Thread Chris Frey
case you are using ext4). Thanks. It was off, and I was searching for a "CAPABILITY" option to enable. Sorry for the noise. - Chris -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains

Re: [uml-user] stop a vm

2011-11-29 Thread Chris Frey
assumes that only one UML VM is running. I'm assuming there is a better way, but I don't know it. - Chris -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record

Re: [uml-user] UML is wonderful !!!

2012-07-05 Thread Chris Frey
efficient. Am I also out of date? :-) Thanks, - Chris -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respo

[uml-user] Re: UML startup problems on SUSE Enterprise Server 9

2004-12-19 Thread Chris Epicier
peaople could use umls by setting them up with yast. I used Gerd Knorr's instructions on his personal ftp account to set up a uml battery by hand. This is now running smoothly. greets Chris ___ Ges

[uml-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: SuSE 9.2 & UML -- Feedback?

2004-12-24 Thread Chris Epicier
o get you a kick off point. greets Chris ___ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 250MB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de --- SF ema

Re: [uml-user] uml help __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)

2005-03-17 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:52:53PM -0300, itamar wrote: > I am running a uml machine, and I am getting this errors. > > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0) > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) > __alloc

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] uml help __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)

2005-03-17 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:13:37PM -0300, itamar wrote: > I am running the guest kernel with mem=256M does it sound reasonable that 256MB of memory is in use? if so can you trim that down? if this seems too high we need to see if there is a leak somewhere

[uml-user] strace(1) under 2.4.x

2005-03-23 Thread Chris Lightfoot
I'm observing strace(1) behaving oddly under recent 2.4.x versions. Under 2.4.27 with uml-patch-2.4.27-1 and strace 4.5.8, we get: # strace /bin/echo execve("/bin/echo", ["/bin/echo"], [/* 13 vars */]) = 0 exit_group(0) = ? which isn't very useful. Under 2.4.26 + uml-p

[uml-user] Re: strace(1) under 2.4.x

2005-03-23 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:59:33PM +, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > I'm observing strace(1) behaving oddly under recent 2.4.x > versions. Under 2.4.27 with uml-patch-2.4.27-1 and strace > 4.5.8, we get: [...] > Has anyone else observed this and looked into it in more > det

Re: [uml-user] PCMCIA support

2005-04-28 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:51:16PM +1000, Nik wrote: > I am trying to determine if a UML kernel (2.4.x) running on a 2.6.y > host can access a PCMCIA card? no directly no > The most recent thread on this that I found in the mail archives was > dated 2002 (which said "probably not"), so I was hop

Re: [uml-user] why recent uml has very high systemload ?

2005-07-14 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 06:36:13PM +0200, Sebastian Böhm wrote: > Tasks: 20 total, 2 running, 18 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, _*100.0% > hi*_, 0.0% si [...] > uname -a > Linux sindar 2.6.12.2-bs1 #1 Wed Jul 6 15:50:16 CEST 2

Re: [uml-user] why recent uml has very high systemload ?

2005-07-14 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:25:01PM +0300, Anton Titov wrote: > Sorry for the offtopic but I'm allmost sure, that what the guy at > http://nslug.ns.ca/pipermail/nslug/2005-June/008456.html is seeng is > syncronization of software raid and load of 1 will disappear in a hour > or something. quite rig

[uml-user] initrd support on 2.6.13

2005-09-22 Thread Chris Bainbridge
initrd=gentoo on the uncompressed image, it still hangs. Can anyone confirm that initrd support works on 2.6.13? Do I need any further options selected in the UML kernel config? Thanks, Chris --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development cha

[uml-user] Re: initrd support on 2.6.13

2005-09-22 Thread Chris Bainbridge
I discovered the stderr=1 option. Log now: UML running in TT mode Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /tmp...OK tracing thread pid = 6929 Linux version 2.6.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #7 SMP Thu Sep 22 17:07:12 BST 2005 Built 1 zonelists Kernel com

Re: [uml-user] Re: initrd support on 2.6.13

2005-09-22 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 22/09/05, Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never tried initramfs. Can you either provide a URL for downloading that file > or send it me via email, together with the output of vmlinux --showconfig, so > that I try it? http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distribu

Re: [uml-user] Re: initrd support on 2.6.13

2005-09-23 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 22/09/05, Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Btw, have you tested if it works with a normal root_fs first (maybe even > > toms > > rootfs)? > > Yup, normal root fs works. I've now tried the gentoo 2005.0 initrd (not initramfs), it works (at l

Re: [uml-user] Re: initrd support on 2.6.13

2005-09-23 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 23/09/05, Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/09/05, Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Btw, have you tested if it works with a normal root_fs first (maybe even > > > toms > > > rootfs)? > > > > Yup, norm

[uml-user] 2.6.13 SKAS0 fails "cannot set up LDT for thread-local storage"

2005-09-23 Thread Chris Bainbridge
read-local storage /sbin/rc: line 20: 183 Segmentation fault tar -jxpf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 -C /dev * Since this is a critical task, startup cannot continue. /lib/tls doesn't exist. tt mode works fine on the same image. Any ideas?

[uml-user] No message "Virtual console 1 assigned..."

2005-09-23 Thread Chris Bainbridge
de=tt umid=ubuntu How can the virtualised system affect whether the uml linux process reports mapping of the tty devices? Why do the gentoo/ubuntu systems behave differently, even though I have the same command line and uml kernel? Can I fix the Gentoo image to always give the same info? Tha

[uml-user] udev "No space left on device" when mem= option not specified

2005-09-23 Thread Chris Bainbridge
: No space left on device tar: ttyp7: Cannot mknod: No space left on device tar: ttyp8: Cannot mknod: No space left on device ... Thanks, Chris --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Ser

Re: [uml-user] udev "No space left on device" when mem= option not specified

2005-09-23 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 23/09/05, Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /sbin/rc: line 25: cannot redirect standard input from /dev/null: No > > such file or directory > > [ oops ] > Oops? What? There's a real kernel Oops? No, that's a message from /sbin/rc. > Why is it trying to create ttyp? If the tarball con

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:11:18PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: [...] > 5. sysemu too - patch that into the host, or use current -linus or -mm, which > has it already. At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there been work fixing this? --

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:39:46AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > > won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there been > > work fixing this? >

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:59:54PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 03 October 2005 14:39, Jeff Dike wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > > > won't work (

Re: [uml-user] Making the most of ubds?

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:57:35AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: [...] > What we really want are write barriers (which I don't believe Linux exposes > to > userspace but I'm not sure), and for UBD to propogate through actual fsync > requests to the underlying OS. I did some work on this six wee

Re: [uml-user] UML and Disk Write Cache

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:36:50AM +0100, Juraj Holtak wrote: > I still do not understand, why the guests became that much slow. Could > somebody explain me why? Very probably you're suffering from seeing the real seek performance of the disks. Switching on the write cache hides this, at the cost

Re: [uml-user] UML and Disk Write Cache

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 09:50:22AM +0100, Juraj Holtak wrote: > new data: > > not forcing a sync mount for the guest makes the performance impact of > disabling write cache very low. > > The question is: What`s the smaller evil??? With O_SYNC off, guests are vulnerable to data corruption if the

[uml-user] oTC Update: st-ock Ready to Rocket?

2006-10-21 Thread CHRIS DULANEY
Title: --- words is correct -- it interprets the meanings with truth and with The church was icy cold, and he toiled in the cellar, stuffing wood into the flaming maw of the steam-heater, till it was time to ring the bell. As he gave the last stroke, Deacon Bradley approached

Re: [uml-user] Bug in UML

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:40:08PM +, Antoine Martin wrote: > Between stop and go the filesystem is still mounted on the guest right? > If so, you are screwing the filesystems by mounting them on the host: > the mount command will run fixups on the (journaled?) filesystem. > (You could try mou

Re: [uml-user] Bug in UML

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:00:17PM -0500, Jonas Meyer wrote: > It seems to be nearly instant, yes. If not instant, it is within 2-3 > minutes. I am using ext3, so I should be mounting read-only. I wasn't, > but somehow it doesn't seem like messing with the journal a little bit > would screw up t

Re: [uml-user] Bug in UML

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:14:53PM -0500, Jonas Meyer wrote: > Hmm... What is the preferred method of backup for a VM then? As I > said, I'd rather not install ssh on every guest if I don't have to. depends how consistent a backup you need and what level of resource usage you can tolerate. e.g.