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 mounting read-only - but still, bad idea IMO)
Antoine Jonas Meyer wrote: > I just discovered a bug in UML. Under a vanilla edgy eft Ubuntu install > as the host (with the linux-generic package installed for the kernel), > and using linux2.6.16.29-bs2-32bit (from Blaisorblade) for the guest > kernel, using the uml_mconsole HANDLE stop command can freeze the guest > permanently. That is to say, i built a backup script which did the > following: > > 1) stop the guest > 2) mount the root_fs on the host > 3) rsync stuff off of the root_fs (making no changes to the root_fs) > 4) unmount the root_fs > 5) issue the go command to the guest > > Some of the time it works just fine. However, out of 20 or so virtual > machines, around 5 - 10 of them would freeze and need to be rebooted. > They would still respond to pings, but they could neither be screened > into, nor ssh, nor any other service would respond. > > Any ideas? I could install ssh on all the guests, and rsync directly > off of them, but that is installing extra services that I'd rather not > install and administrate. > > Jonas > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > User-mode-linux-user mailing list > User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
