Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are there so far any official plans to support UML in the near future?
humm maybe i tried yesterday but haven't go further.
> It would IMHO be a really good thing because it would let you e.g.
> - Test cooker on a production machine without system outage
> - Run Cooker/Mandrake8.1 inside a completely different distribution
> - Support UML users with another installer besides SlackWare
> - Test some aspects of the installer more easily
> These are my experiences why it fails so far:
> - Missing features:
> * Support for ubd as installation medium (adapt from cdrom version)
> * Support for ubd devices in first stage install mount.o (trivial)
> * UML host network devices for network install (not important)
> * Skipping Hardware detection for devices not present in UML
> * ubd target devices instead of harddrive partitions
> * Remote drakX display, e.g. through Xnest (even less important, but cool)
> - Bugs encountered
> * Detection of memory size fails (possibly bug in UML)
> * Mounting fails when mem != 2^n MB (probably UML bug)
> * Installation fails when kernel modules are missing, this prevents
> installing with a user supplied kernel, e.g. on a different distro
thanks, but BTW: patches package is welcome :-)
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