On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:24:26PM +0100, Ron Yorston wrote: > I've now had a chance to try out the UML driver for libvirt. My host > platform was CentOS 5 and the guest CentOS 4, with a 2.6.27.2 kernel > configured as 'make defconfig ARCH=um'. I used uml:///session as an > unprivileged user. > > The CVS snapshot tarball on the libvirt.org ftp site was out of date: > use the cvs command to fetch the source. > > My host system hadn't been set up for UML before so virsh didn't work > until I'd: > > created the directory ~/.uml (which doesn't exist if you haven't > run a UML instance yet);
Ah, that's useful info - I would never have noticed that :-) > installed the UML utilities (because libvirt checks that uml_mconsole > exists, even though it doesn't use it). Yep, that check is now obsolete, so I'll remove it. > Once I'd figured that out I was able to start a virtual machine from > virsh and see it using the list command. > > However, connecting to the guest's console was very unreliable (No > console available for domain). Also, all attempts to shut down the > guest from virsh failed (libvir: Remote error : socket closed > unexpectedly). Once that had happened the domain was no longer shown > by the list command. Ok, that's a bug I'll look into. > BTW, is there a way to disconnect from the guest console? We follow the telnet defaults, and use 'Ctrl+]' sequence Thanks for taking the time to test out this initial code, hopefully I'll get this polished up and incorporated in the next libvirt release. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
