Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 09:05:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones >> wrote: >> > * UML is pretty fast! It's certainly faster (by a factor of > 5) than >> > spinning up a lightwe

Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 09:05:08PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > * UML is pretty fast! It's certainly faster (by a factor of > 5) than > > spinning up a lightweight KVM VM. > This is interesting. Typically people say you have to

Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > * UML is pretty fast! It's certainly faster (by a factor of > 5) than > spinning up a lightweight KVM VM. This is interesting. Typically people say you have to use KVM or XEN for good virtualization performance. But for that you need s

Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-09 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 10:57:20PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Today I wrote some patches (for libguestfs) which add an experimental > > UML backend: > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-August/msg5

Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 10:57:20PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > * UML is pretty fast! It's certainly faster (by a factor of > 5) than > > spinning up a lightweight KVM VM. > > Wow! > Does it only boot faster or is it also

Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:18:24PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 09.08.2013 23:15, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: > > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:43:55PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> * I'm trying to use a serial port to communicate between guest and > >> host, using ssl3=fd:. This cau

Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-09 Thread Richard Weinberger
Am 09.08.2013 23:15, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:43:55PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> * I'm trying to use a serial port to communicate between guest and >> host, using ssl3=fd:. This causes the Linux process to crash soon >> (but not immediately) after the guest

Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:43:55PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > * I'm trying to use a serial port to communicate between guest and > host, using ssl3=fd:. This causes the Linux process to crash soon > (but not immediately) after the guest has opened /dev/ttyS3: > > spurious interrupt in u

Re: [uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-09 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Today I wrote some patches (for libguestfs) which add an experimental > UML backend: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-August/msg5.html > > There are some observations from this. > > * 'ubd=cow,original' is not pa

[uml-devel] Using UML in libguestfs

2013-08-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Today I wrote some patches (for libguestfs) which add an experimental UML backend: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-August/msg5.html There are some observations from this. * 'ubd=cow,original' is not parsed correctly. This was reported a while back and I'm seeing the same t