The user-mode port of 2.4.3 is available. Added --help and --version, which do the obvious things UML now creates a /tmp/uml/<name> pid file. The name can be set with the '-umid=<name>' switch. This is intended to make it easier for a UI to control a number of virtual machines. There is a more general interface coming which will replace the pid file with a socket to a low-level console inside UML. Fixed several major crashes and numerous smaller bugs. The major fixes required some surgery from which UML still hasn't totally recovered, so it's still a bit wobbly. In particular, if it swaps, processes will start segfaulting, and the swap code will start spitting out various frightening-sounding messages. A number of hostfs bugfixes and cleanup. One major new feature here - hostfs can now be the root filesystem. This is done by assigning a directory to a ubd device, i.e. 'ubd0=/path/to/uml/root'. A little bit of magic will cause this to be mounted as a hostfs filesystem. Requirements: hostfs compiled into the kernel, /etc/fstab in that filesystem must have the / fs type as hostfs, you (the user running UML) must own all the files (they will be magically owned by root inside the virtual machine). modify_ldt is now implemented. /proc/cmdline is now right. gdb automatically gets breakpoints set on panic and BUG. The project's home page is http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net Downloads are available at http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?group_id =429 and ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/uml/ Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
