On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Antoine Martin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > | On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Antoine Martin wrote: > | > |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > |> Hash: SHA512 > |> > |> The kernels and filesystems here: > |> http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/ > |> Should all be set to use dhcp network configuration, just start a dhcp > |> server and you should be up and running. > |> > |> Antoine > | > | but for simplicity's sake, i would prefer not to set up a DHCP server > | just yet -- i would prefer to configure that first example of > | networking manually and, step by step, work my way up -- that's the > | whole point of the "recipe" approach. > | > | i've already downloaded, from the nagafix site, the following: > | > | * Fedora8-x86-root_fs.bz2 > | * kernel32-2.6.24.3.bz2 > | > | and, certainly, i can start basic UML with those. so now, the > | question is, what is the exact set of steps to do nothing more than > | network my host and my guest OS, as simply as possible?
> Well, the problem is that if you don't want to use dhcp, you either > have to edit some config files on the guest or you have to login and > bring the network up by hand... IMO, that's more complicated (and > less flexible) than just starting a dhcp server instance. > > Antoine that may be true, but it's not the point. in writing out a recipe for how to do something, sometimes it's more informational to start with the more cumbersome and manual approach, only to show how it evolves into an easier and simpler strategy later on. consider the explanation for how to set up simple networking here: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/network.html the very first line on that web page seems quite clear about what is about to be explained: "The easiest way to get started with UML networking involves nothing special besides adding a switch to the UML command line." ok, fine, then let's get networking running by doing nothing more than "adding a switch to the UML command line." *that's* what i want to do. and yet, no matter what i try, the instructions on that page don't give me networking. consider, as a single example, the suggestion on that page that you can configure the eth0 device thusly if you have a running UML session: $ uml_mconsole umid eth0=tuntap,,,192.168.0.254 if i try that, i get: $ uml_mconsole MwxFu2 eth0=tuntap,,,192.168.1.254 ERR Unknown command $ in short, those instructions simply don't work so there's not much point reading the rest of that page since i now don't trust anything that's written there. what i'm after is fairly simple -- given a kernel and a root filesystem, i want to know how to *manually* configure simple networking between my guest OS and my host OS, as a number of web pages assure me is possible but none of them explain correctly. i don't want to know how to configure automatic networking, i don't want to set up DHCP. i want to start by doing this *manually* so, at the risk of sounding a bit brusque because it's been a long day, unless you are willing to supply the instructions for doing just that, please don't waste my time. i will *eventually* get around to doing the more sophisticated stuff, but that's not what i'm trying to do *now*. in a nutshell, the reason i'm investing my time in trying to write a "recipe" for getting UML running from scratch is because there's nothing on the net that explains how to do that. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
