On Wednesday 24 January 2007 19:17, Maren Peasley wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to setup several Damn Small Linux (DSL) instances to > run within a DSL host. I am successful in launching and running > instances (guests) of DSL, but I cannot bring an Ethernet interface up > on the guest. > > My procedure follows: > > 1) Download current.iso from one of DSL's mirrors (this was not more > than a week ago - I don't have an exact date), > 2) Install this to a spare machine via hd-install script, > 3) Download DSL from Antoine Martin's page (http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/): > http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/DSL-2.2/ > 4) Unpack, then copy this to the system running DSL, > 5) Run this command-line in the host DSL to start UML: > ./linux-2.6.19-rc5 ubda=DSL-2.2-root_fs mem=128M > eth0=ethertap,tap0,,10.11.12.13
First of all, have you got good reasons to use ethertap rather than tuntap (which is faster, among other things)? The only one I can remember is a host kernel not supporting tuntap (because it wasn't compiled in). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can add them to my list! 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
