On 5/8/07, Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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 refused > >> > >> These suggest that you are messnig up the umid. Did you put > >> 'umid=linux' on the UML command line? > >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.21]# > >> > > >> > 2. I also followed the instructions swap on > >> > http://www.ime.usp.br/~baroni/docs/uml-en.html. Basically, I did - > >> > $ cd /dev > >> > $mkdir /ubd > >> > $cd ubd > >> > $ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod ubd$i b 98 $[ $i * 16 ]; done > >> > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=swap_file count=200 bs=1M > >> > $ mkswap swap_file > >> > $ umount /mnt/vmfs > >> > > >> > During bootup I see the following log - > >> > ubda: unknown partition table > >> > Couldn't stat "swap_file" : err = 2 > >> > >> That's because you seem to have made swap_file within the UML and > >> tried to connect UML's ubdb to swap_file on the host. > >> > > Thanks for the pointers. From what Jeff and Antonie said, I realized > > that I need to have UML kernel running to use mconsole and uml_swap > > and root_fs should be in the same dir in the host fs. So here is what > > i did - > > > > 1. Created uml_swap in the host fs in the same dir as root_fs > > (actually root_fs is in /opt/ and I have a symlink to it in /root/uml/ > > and so uml_swap is in /rrot/uml). And then I tried - > > (a) ./linux ubd0=root_fs ubd1=uml_swap mem=128M con0=fd:0,fd:1 > > con=xterm eth0=tuntap,tap0,FE:F0:00:00:00:01,192.168.0.254 umid=vm001 > > Boot log - > > ubda: unknown partition table > > ubdb: unknown partition table > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Swap > > SwapCached: 0 kB > > SwapTotal: 0 kB > > SwapFree: 0 kB > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# > Swap doesn't just get activated because you add it to the command line. > You need to tell your guest kernel to use it, otherwise it is just > another disk available for use. > mkswap /dev/ubdb > swapon /dev/ubdb > Many thanks for the tip. It worked. To automate this on each boot, I put it in /etc/rc.local and it worked. Is there a better way to automate this ?
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