On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Jon Foster <jon-li...@jfpossibilities.com> wrote: > I'm kind of new to the UML thing. I've read that every instance of UML > creates a temp file that represents the RAM of that instance. Its > obvious that putting that in a "tmpfs" would be very good, but I don't > want to mount a tmpfs on "/tmp", its used by too many other things and > the size restriction would cause problems. > > I've read a "per-instance" tmpfs can be setup... but nowhere have I seen > how that's done. There doesn't appear to be any CLI switches for telling > UML where to put the temp file and $TMPDIR doesn't seem to do anything > for it. > > I'm running stock Debian 7 64bit on Intel Xeons, with their supplied UML > packages. The UML kernel version is 3.2.54. > > How can I tell UML to put its temp file somewhere else?
UML checks the environment variables TMP, TEMP and TEMPDIR. Recent UML kernels use /dev/shm. -- Thanks, //richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
