Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Joerg Reuter
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:02:09PM +0200, Tobias Dörkes wrote: Some weeks ago, i tried to implement the VM shared kernel using SLES9. But without success. So i asked SUSE, but SuSE does not support the VM shared kernel !!! Well, there are no support services from SUSE for this kernel feature

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/25/05, Joerg Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite frankly, in my opinion you really don't gain that much from this feature (unless you have a great amount of almost identical guests, all of them running the same kernel) and upgrading the kernel probably becomes an administrative

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/25/2005 at 07:00 ZE2, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you're right, the potential savings with sharing binaries in DCSS are larger (and probably harder to manage from a software management point of view). The kernel in NSS and binaries in DCSS are independent issues

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread James Melin
cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU Subject Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel 07/25/2005 01:06 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/25/2005 at 01:17 EST, James Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, pray tell, is union mount? The ability to mount two file systems at the same mount point. You mount a r/w filesystem on top of a r/o file system. If you write to a file, it is redirected to the r/w filesystem.

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/25/05, James Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, pray tell, is union mount? Well, for Linux union mount is not there. Other systems (e.g. FreeBSD) have this mechanism where you mount multiple devices on the same mount point in some 'transparent' fashion where you're still able to see

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
] IST.EDU Subject Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel 07/25/2005 01:06 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 25, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: On 7/25/05, Sal Torres/SBC Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Linux Journal had an article a while back: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7714 That's unionfs - it shares some of the concepts but works on a different level. Am I the only

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
VM Enterprise Servers 425-865-5940 -Original Message- From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 1:18 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel On Jul 25, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: On 7/25/05, Sal Torres/SBC

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 25, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: Be careful or I'll send an .mp3 of it's a small world. There's no need to, NOW. Thanks. Thanks a bunch. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-19 Thread Tobias Dörkes
Hi list, i just want to give a final update for this problem. Some weeks ago, i tried to implement the VM shared kernel using SLES9. But without success. So i asked SUSE, but SuSE does not support the VM shared kernel !!! They said that if i want to use this option, i will have to install

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel [Virus checked]

2005-07-06 Thread Tobias Doerkes
Hi Rob, sorry for not answering your reply, but i was on vacation for 2 weeks ... I tried a make mrproper make cloneconfig make image, copied arch/s390/boot/image to /boot/image-2.6.5-7.97-s390x and zipl. but after ipling the system there is still the same problem: cat /proc/iomem

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel [Virus checked]

2005-07-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/6/05, Tobias Doerkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for not answering your reply, but i was on vacation for 2 weeks ... I envy you - I have been flooded in work ... let me try this with my own 2.6 and get back to you where it sits. I was told that with some 2.6 it is automagic but don't

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel [Virus checked]

2005-06-13 Thread Tobias Doerkes
Hi, Right, there's something not recompiled when you change that config option. I am not sure which one it was, maybe check head.o or otherwise run a make mrproper just in case. Even a make mrproper does not change the situation ... Any other ideas what to do ? Regards, Tobias

SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel [Virus checked]

2005-06-09 Thread Tobias Dêrkes
Hi list, i tried to enable the VM Shared Kernel Support in SLES9. After installation of SLES9 i performed following steps: cd /usr/sr/linux make cloneconfig make menuconfig (to enable VM Shared Kernel Support) make image cp image /boot/image-nss zipl iplnss After rebooting the system cat /proc

Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel [Virus checked]

2005-06-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 6/9/05, Tobias Dêrkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried to enable the VM Shared Kernel Support in SLES9. After installation of SLES9 i performed following steps: cd /usr/sr/linux make cloneconfig make menuconfig (to enable VM Shared Kernel Support) make image cp image /boot/image-nss