Thank you.......so does this mean that UML must always use tuntap for
networking?   Can we have any other alternatives than tuntap?

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Maninder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes peter, I have come to know abt it.. actually tuntap  is one of the
> transport types available for packet exchange between the virtual machines
> (UML clients) and the host OS. So, while invoking the uml client, we specify
> how this client will be networked with the host.  under tuntap transport
> type, the procedure is to setup virtual nw devices like tap0, tap1 so on..
> in the host and then the network devices in client is linked to one of the
> taps in host.
>
> General format for this is:
>
> eth<n>=<transport>,<transport args>
> A very gud link describing transport types is:
>
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/networking.html
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Peter Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Check this out for SKAS:
>>
>>  http://www.linux.com/feature/59404
>>
>> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/skas.html
>>
>> And if u found out something on tuntap, let me know!!!
>>
>> searching "tuntap" indicated that it is a common term belong to that
>> of Solaris, Linux, MacOS, BSD etc.....
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUN/TAP
>>
>> Very interesting!!!
>>
>> On 10月15日, 上午1时34分, "Maninder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >  I am trying to run UML. when i give the following command, error occurs
>> > as
>> > shown below:
>> > *# ./linux-2.6.22-rc2 mem=128M eth0=tuntap,tap0*
>> >
>> > Now I want to know two things:
>> >
>> > 1)  what does eth0=tuntap,tap0 means? I have configured tap0 in host and
>> > can
>> > understand if only eth0=tap0 would be specified. But why are we writing
>> > tuntap,tap0?
>> >
>> > 2)   why is command not giving success? does it demand for skas3 patch
>> > to be
>> > installed?
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > *# ./linux-2.6.22-rc2 mem=128M eth0=tuntap,tap0*
>> >
>> > Core dump limits :
>> > soft - 0
>> > hard - NONE
>> > Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...OK
>> > Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...OK
>> > Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...OK
>> > Checking for tmpfs mount on /dev/shm...OK
>> > Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /dev/shm/...OK
>> > Checking for the skas3 patch in the host:
>> > - /proc/mm...not found: No such file or directory
>> > - PTRACE_FAULTINFO...not found
>> > - PTRACE_LDT...not found
>> > UML running in SKAS0 mode
>> > Adding 20402176 bytes to physical memory to account for exec-shield gap
>> > Linux version 2.6.22-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
>> > 4.1.1
>> > 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #342 Wed May 23 11:56:49 EDT 2007
>> > Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 37455
>> > Kernel command line: mem=128M eth0=tuntap,tap0 root=98:0
>> > PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
>> > Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>> > Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
>> > Memory: 126548k available
>> > Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
>> > Checking for host processor cmov support...Yes
>> > Checking for host processor xmm support...No
>> > Checking that host ptys support output SIGIO...Yes
>> > Checking that host ptys support SIGIO on close...No, enabling workaround
>> > Using 2.6 host AIO
>> > NET: Registered protocol family 16
>> > NET: Registered protocol family 2
>> > IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
>> > TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
>> > TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
>> > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
>> > TCP reno registered
>> > Checking host MADV_REMOVE support...OK
>> > mconsole (version 2) initialized on /root/.uml/mi43lF/mconsole
>> > Host TLS support detected
>> > Detected host type: i386
>> > VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
>> > Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
>> > io scheduler noop registered
>> > io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
>> > io scheduler deadline registered
>> > io scheduler cfq registered
>> > TCP cubic registered
>> > NET: Registered protocol family 1
>> > NET: Registered protocol family 17
>> > Initialized stdio console driver
>> > Console initialized on /dev/tty0
>> > Initializing software serial port version 1
>> > Couldn't stat "root_fs" : err = 2
>> > Failed to initialize ubd device 0 :Couldn't determine size of device's
>> > file
>> > Choosing a random ethernet address for device eth0
>> > Netdevice 0 (0a:d4:37:a8:d3:ca) : TUN/TAP backend -
>> > VFS: Cannot open root device "98:0" or unknown-block(98,0)
>> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
>> > partitions:
>> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>> > unknown-block(98,0)
>> >
>> > EIP: 0073:[<00110402>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:00114fc0 EFLAGS:
>> > 00200246
>> > Not tainted
>> > EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00001837 ECX: 00000013 EDX: 00001837
>> > ESI: 00001833 EDI: 00000011 EBP: 00114fd8 DS: 007b ES: 007b
>> > 113a8e64: [<08069628>] show_regs+0xb4/0xb9
>> > 113a8e90: [<08057ca8>] panic_exit+0x25/0x3f
>> > 113a8ea4: [<08078720>] notifier_call_chain+0x21/0x46
>> > 113a8ec4: [<080787bb>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x17/0x19
>> > 113a8ee0: [<080787d2>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x15/0x17
>> > 113a8efc: [<0806daba>] panic+0x52/0xdd
>> > 113a8f1c: [<08049af9>] mount_block_root+0x100/0x116
>> > 113a8f70: [<08049b5b>] mount_root+0x4c/0x54
>> > 113a8f94: [<08049c41>] prepare_namespace+0xde/0x10a
>> > 113a8fa4: [<08049827>] kernel_init+0x79/0x85
>> > 113a8fb4: [<08063a39>] run_kernel_thread+0x37/0x42
>> > 113a8fe0: [<08058095>] new_thread_handler+0x57/0x7e
>> > 113a8ffc: [<a55a5a5a>] 0xa55a5a5a
>> >
>> > Segmentation fault
>
>



-- 
Regards,
Peter Teoh

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