On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:39:50AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> a) once i run the "uml_mconsole" command on the host, is there a way
> to verify the result of that operation? running "ifconfig" doesn't
> show me any difference, so how could one verify that that operation
> finished correctly? "ifconfig" won't show a working "tap0" interface
> until networking is brought up in the UML session, so is there any
> indication at all on the host side until that happens?
The "OK" from uml_mconsole means the operation succeeded. And by "the
operation", I mean the addition of a new interface to the UML. Since
that is strictly internal to the UML (some types of interfaces,
i.e. daemon and mcast, are invisible to the host as networking), there
can't be any other indication on the host that anything happened.
> b) what must be true about both the host kernel and the guest kernel
> for simple networking to work? i can't think of anything more
> frustrating for a beginner than to fight with networking for a while,
> only to learn that either his host or guest kernel wasn't configured
> and built with the required functionality. so it would be nice to
> have a checklist for both kernels.
Networking on both sides, TUN/TAP available on the host. The UML
utilities installed on the host.
Jeff
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