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

2013-08-25 Thread Teto
Hi, First a bit of context, I am looking for a kernel test & debug platform. I hesitate between QEmu and UML for this but I like the hostfs ability of UML (less complicated than 9p in qemu). As I run those tests on different computers and synchronize things via git, I prefer to do without a root f

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

2013-08-27 Thread Teto
Wow that's a great answer. Thank you to have taken the time to detail thing. It's a lot clearer now. > 1) You point (via umlsetup.sh) at the kernel source you want, it makes an > lndir > link tree (%1) for the kernel, and compiles it. I use the "O=" switch to compile for different architectures.

Re: [uml-user] Building UML with busybox as root file system

2013-11-19 Thread Teto
Have you tried setting your init to the busybox binary ? try adding "init=" o nthe command line 2013/11/19 Tamil Mani : > Hi , > I downloaded the latest version of linux-3.11.8 ,configured it as UML and > got the statically compiled binary (linux). > > Then i downloaded the latest busybox 1.21.1 a