On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:35:20AM -0700, David Francisco Rodriguez Perez wrote:
> I am working on a simulator of a product and so far we have decided to go
> with UML. I have so far 2 questions.
> 1. There is a network namespace patch that is coming into the mainline in
> 2.6.26. Is this patch going to be supported in UML?
If it's in mainline, it's in UML (for the most part - some things
require arch support, but I don't the the namespace stuff is among them).
> 2. The following question is maybe a no-brainer. We have a a user space
> program using the socket library to connect to a server outside the UML
> entity. We would like to change that to a kernel driver in UML. Can we
> create a module for UML that uses a user space library like the socket
> library? I would assume not, but just to confirm.
You can. That's how UML drivers generally work. See pcap and vde for
a couple of drivers that pull in libraries.
Jeff
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