Hi Paolo, This is where I am, and probably reflects the current state of play with UML, is this how it should be as you understand things right now?:
==================================================================== 1) 32 bit SMP dual machine. SKAS mode ../linux-2.6.12/linux mem=160M ubda=root_fs.2005062201 ubdb=swap root=/dev/ubda con=pty con0=fd:0,fd:1 Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) Kernel 2.6.12-bs7 on an i686 Unauthorized access to this system is strictly prohibited. uml-test login: root Password: Last login: Tue Jul 19 18:34:10 on tty0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# shutdown -h now Broadcast message from root (tty0) (Tue Jul 19 19:11:58 2005): The system is going down for system halt NOW! INIT: Switching to runlevel: 0 INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal Stopping HAL daemon: [ OK ] Stopping system message bus: [ OK ] Stopping atd: [ OK ] Stopping sshd: [ OK ] Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ] Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ] Stopping crond: [ OK ] Stopping automount:[ OK ] Stopping auditd: [FAILED] Shutting down kernel logger: [ OK ] Shutting down system logger: [ OK ] line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl TIOCLINUX called Shutting down loopback interface: line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl TIOCLINUX called line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl TIOCLINUX called [ OK ] line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl TIOCLINUX called Starting killall: [ OK ] line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl TIOCLINUX called Sending all processes the TERM signal... Sending all processes the KILL signal... Saving random seed: Syncing hardware clock to system time Turning off swap: Turning off quotas: Halting system... Power down. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uml]$ ==================================================================== 2) 32 bit SMP dual machine. TT mode Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /tmp...OK Adding 19587072 bytes to physical memory to account for exec-shield gap tracing thread pid = 12544 Linux version 2.6.12-bs7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)) #2 Mon Jul 18 15:46:37 EST 2005 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: mem=160M mode=tt ubda=root_fs.2005062201 ubdb=swap root=/dev/ubda con=pty con0=fd:0,fd:1 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Memory: 157568k available Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 Checking for host processor cmov support...Yes Checking for host processor xmm support...No 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 that host ptys support output SIGIO...Yes Checking that host ptys support SIGIO on close...No, enabling workaround Checking for /dev/anon on the host...Not available (open failed with errno 2) NET: Registered protocol family 16 mconsole (version 2) initialized on /home/phill/.uml/s1utEV/mconsole ubd: Synchronous mode 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 io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes 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) 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 ubda: unknown partition table ubdb: unknown partition table kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDSIGACCEPT called INIT: version 2.85 booting Hangs here in init. ==================================================================== 3) 32 bit UML on 64 bit IBM x336. SKAS mode. NOT YET SUPPORTED if I understand correctly. Host kernel is patched with same SKAS3 version as 32 bit host. It seems to almost work, getting hung at init again, however there is not a huge list of threads running on the host as in case 2). ==================================================================== 4) 32 bit UML on 64 bit IBM x336. TT mode. Identical to case 2) ==================================================================== 5) 64 bit UML on 64 bit IBM x336. SKAS mode. NOT TESTED ==================================================================== 6) 64 bit UML on 64 bit IBM x336. TT mode. NOT TESTED ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user