[uml-user] hostfs broken?

2007-05-30 Thread Jonas Meyer
Is hostfs broken currently? I ask because attempting to run the command "sudo mount none /directory-on-vm/ -r -t hostfs -o /directory-on-host" freezes the vm hardcore. It won't even respond to a uml_mconsole halt command. Running top on the host shows the vm consuming 100% of cpu. I have to kil

Re: [uml-user] hostfs broken?

2007-05-30 Thread Antoine Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > I am running 2.6.18-bb1 on the vm (blaisorblade's precompiled binary), Have you tried something more recent? There have been lots of fixes to hostfs since 2.6.18-bb1! > and 2.6.20-15-server (linux kernel from ubuntu package) on the host. PS: we s

Re: [uml-user] swap space

2007-05-30 Thread Antoine Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 kewlemer wrote: >> >> > Warning: couldn't stat file: /root/.uml/linux/mconsole - No such file >> > or directory >> > Warning: couldn't stat file: /tmp/uml/linux/mconsole - No such file >> or directory >> > Sending command to 'linux' : Connection refu

[uml-user] swap file

2007-05-30 Thread Haywood Floyd
from later discussion about swap file: i am starting my uml guess machine without a device for swap file. which problems can to appear from that ? another topic: is there a problem by use the Debian-3.0r0.ext2 file system (from uml how-to sourceforge site) with a guess uml machine based in a 2.6

Re: [uml-user] hostfs broken?

2007-05-30 Thread Jonas Meyer
Sadly, I can't get anything more recent to run. This might be a part of a broader issue, but most of the precompiled binaries that I download off of your site wont work. I'll admit I may not have tried them all, but the most recent one will not boot a vm at all on that host. I've found that only