On Wednesday 21 December 2005 08:16, Jim Carter wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Monday 19 December 2005 21:19, Jim Carter wrote: > > The problem lies in the #ifdef mapping ntohll to _bswap64 - in 2.6.13 it > > was changed in a wrong way (and not by anybody present here - somebody > > went with a "nice cleanup" without understanding what was going on).
> (Groan.) > > While the comment refers to a "2.6.13" format and an "other kernels" > > format, it's clear that uml_utilities use the latter. > > Also, normally there's no need to use uml_mkcow - passing > > ubd0=<cow_path,backing file path> auto setups the COW file if needed > > (i.e. it doesn't exist). > Unfortunately that was the first thing I tried: the 2.6.13 kernel wrote the > same header that uml_mkcow did, then complained that the size was wrong in > the header it had just written. ?!? That's even stranger... however, it's still fixed (I never see something such and I _do_ create COW files with UML, currently). > It looks like the provided combination of > kernel and utilities is not going to be useable; either the kernel has to > be repatched or the utilities have to be sabotaged. Hey, if you looked at the link, you'd see that that -bs patch (and any subsequent release) use the "right" header format. > I'm having a lot of trouble to figure out just which patch SuSE used. If you really need, you can download the .src.rpm file and take its spec. It also contains (usually) the URL the patch was taken from. But I see a simpler solution - rebuilding a UML kernel or downloading the binaries I provide on my site. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&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
