On Tuesday 08 August 2006 06:52, Alejandro Liu wrote: > Hi, > > What is a "current" version of UML to use as a guest? I am currently using > the one that comes with the vanilla 2.6.17.6 kernel and trying to use > hostfs as root and found a number of bugs.
> Of course I went ahead and fixed those bugs but I don't know if I should > send the patches somewhere Yes, thanks. To this list, Jeff Dike and me (and if you want LKML, but don't do that if you're shy or not entirely sure). > or if these bugs were fixed in some "secret" > development version of UML. No. hostfs is _at the moment_ unmaintained. There is a rewrite of hostfs (based on the new externfs), but it is nowhere near merging (it's under slow development since at least an year). You can find the development tree here: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/patches.html > PS: Actually I did not set out to do bug hunting, I was just adding some > features to hostfs that I wanted to use. You could maybe post them too. > The bug fixing was just a side > effect. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
