On Thursday 26 October 2006 21:21, Jonas Meyer wrote: > Jonas Meyer wrote: > > Has anyone played with getting VMs up and running under edgy eft yet? > > > > I am getting a bug that I need to figure out a new solution for. > > Under dapper drake, if I failed to edit "/etc/inittab" to add > > information about tty0, no login prompt would appear on a freshly minted > > root_fs. > > > > However, under edgy eft, there is no inittab. It appears to have been > > phased out as part of the transition from sysvinit to upstart. Anyone > > got any ideas about how I might be able to screen into my machine and > > log in? > > > > Jonas Meyer > > Sorry to bother the list. I looked in event.d (the replacement for > inittab under upstart) and found the contents to be fairly self > explanatory. It might be nice if you didn't have to add tty0 in the > first place though. > > In other news, the combination of the default edgy 386 kernel on the > host and blaisorblade's 2.6.18 kernel for the guest seems to be no > longer vulnerable to the tls bug. I'm glad that one is finally dead. Interesting - but 2.6.17/2.6.18 is supposed to have already fixed the TLS bug on its own, and UML should work on Dapper (and it _does_ work on my Dapper systems, both i386 and x86-64).
Did you need the host upgrade to get this fixed or you did both at once? -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
