Teto <matta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My current technique is to boot the kernel to test with a custom initrd
> that mounts the host filesystem, chroot to this mounted directory so
> that I can use my host binaries (custom ip route binaries already
> installed in my host etc...). I've seen no thread presenting this
> though it's very practical so I was wondering if that violated some
> rules (could harm host system for instance ?) or is it because it's not
> how UML is meant to be used (it aims at isolating).
I have been doing this since 2001 :-)
I've tried to extract this system into a separate package, see:
https://github.com/mcr/uml-network-testing-infrastructure
(I've decided to call this "UNTI". I hacked a bunch of on the weekend,
let me push from my laptop)
> I wondered if I could use my host drive as a root filesystem
> (read-only, using a qcow2 file to save changes) to boot UML instead of
> creating/downloading a filesystem ?
Yes, you could do this.
I use hostfs for /, and I just mount /usr/share from the host.
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