On Tuesday 12 April 2005 19:42, Anthony Brock wrote: > Fabio, > > The most advanced, stable and mature UML kernel (IMHO) is a 2.6.10 (or > newer) host kernel with v7 or newer of the SKAS patch. This host should be > able to run > almost any functional UML host. You can download the SKAS patch from: I would correct that, 2.6.11 is better. The 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 kernels trigger a "hang at exit" and "thousands of threads left alive" problem with some older UML. This is workarounded in current UMLs, but not in older ones.
For the "real" host, however, even a recent 2.4 kernel with a SKAS patch is perfectly stable. What I would avoid is to run a 2.4 UML (i.e.*guest*) kernel, because a 2.6 kernel is better. Particularly stable UML kernels are 2.6.9-bs7 and 2.6.11-bs4. The latter has also been tested to compile and work ok with Debian Woody, including GCC 2.95.4. > http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/ > > However, this depends on a host distribution and software that support the > 2.6 series kernel. > > Also, the UML patches are specific to guest instances. These patches are > not required for the host. > > i saw on irc channel that 2.4.21 is the "stable" kernel (in the topic) That would refer to 2.4.24-1um, at least... also it depends. > > but i also saw that now the uml tree is included in vanilla kernel. > > Is there so a kernel version that is more "stable" than the others.( > > with the word stable i mean also portable) -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
