You can try this blog post I wrote about UML and networking. I wrote it after the fact so it might be missing things but I did do things manually all the way through.
http://www.rafkind.com/jon/showproject.php?id=34 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
