Re: [uml-devel] [uml-user] Website is in need of many small changes and updates?

2015-10-30 Thread Michael Richardson
Please, at least mark the info as being OLD OLD OLD. 90% of it is unnecessary. -- ___ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lis

Re: [uml-devel] Skas Mode : How does it work ?

2014-05-27 Thread Michael Richardson
.. Maybe LinuxSymposium in 1999 and 2000. Also, I suggest you read the source code: that means going back to Linux 2.6. and 2.4 versions. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works| network architect

Re: [uml-devel] Issues with a rather unusual configured NFS server

2013-08-30 Thread Michael Richardson
hread other than the one which would have been resumed on other virtualization. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works| network architect [ ] m...@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/|

[uml-devel] UML vs ptrace_scope

2013-05-17 Thread Michael Richardson
OL/plain26/linux /btmp/build/HEAD/2013_05_12/openswan-2/UMLPOOL/plain26/linux = cap_sys_ptrace+ep No I suspect the problem is elsewhere. Is there something else I am missing? -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson,

Re: [uml-devel] problems with ifup-a on etch compiled kernels

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Richardson
Jeff Dike wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:44:56PM -0800, Michael Richardson wrote: > >>I've tracked this down to a number of places. It looks like the ifa->ifa_dev >>is not >>valid when the notification chain is called: > > > Can you tell me how t

Re: [uml-devel] problems with ifup-a on etch compiled kernels

2006-11-08 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:44:56PM -0800, Michael Richardson Jeff> wrote: >> I've tracked this down to a number of places. It look

Re: [uml-devel] problems with ifup-a on etch compiled kernels

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Richardson
A UML built on debian sarge (machine name cassidy), (gcc-3.3.5, libc-2.3.2) works. The same code built on debian etch (machine name marajade) (gcc-3.3.6 or gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.3.6) fails. A kernel built on the cassidy machine runs more successfully on the marajade machine. It does fail when shu

Re: [uml-devel] problems with ifup-a on etch compiled kernels

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Richardson
Michael Richardson wrote: > in uml_inetaddr_event. > > sure enough, ifa->ifa_dev was NULL. Naturally, if I run things manually, or > under GDB, it fails. > Furthermore, this happens with 2.6.15 and 2.6.17.13 (patched to compile on > etch), and > with 2.6.19-rc3 (which I&

Re: [uml-devel] problems with ifup-a on etch compiled kernels

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Richardson
Michael Richardson wrote: > I don't know whether to blame a recent update to debian testing from stable > --- likely it would be a glibc issue, but... > I did run into the _syscall0() problem after that, and I found that I could > get around it by appropriately #define &

[uml-devel] problems with ifup-a on etch compiled kernels

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Richardson
I don't know whether to blame a recent update to debian testing from stable --- likely it would be a glibc issue, but... I did run into the _syscall0() problem after that, and I found that I could get around it by appropriately #define _KERNEL prior to #include . What I don't get about the remar

Re: [uml-devel] Xen 3.0.2 and UML guest

2006-10-23 Thread Michael Richardson
> I think you mean -T? Blaisorblade> Actually -t prints timestamps, which can be more useful to look at "when are Blaisorblade> we?". okay, I can do -T if you want. http://www.sandelman.ca/tmp/east.trace.gz -- ] Bear: "Me, I'm just the sh

Re: [uml-devel] Xen 3.0.2 and UML guest

2006-10-20 Thread Michael Richardson
normally, but we get nothing about what the child processes are doing, of course. I guess maybe that there are problems with the VT ALARMs on the XenU... Can we build a simpler test case for the Xen folks? - -- ]Bear: "Me, I'm just the shape of a bear." | fi

Re: [uml-devel] Xen 3.0.2 and UML guest

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> The fault may well be Xen's. I'm looking for other experiences, Michael> yeah or nay. I built a tree on my laptop

[uml-devel] Xen 3.0.2 and UML guest

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Richardson
3.0.2, locally compiled) The UML kernel: 2.6.16.18 and 2.6.15 I will try going forward to newer UML kernels. The fault may well be Xen's. I'm looking for other experiences, yeah or nay. -- ]Bear: "Me, I'm just the shape of a bear." | firew

[uml-devel] [PATCH] the xterm that is produced for the virtual consoles should have the --name

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Richardson
From: Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the xterm that is produced for the virtual consoles should have the --name option added. This will tell the xterm to lookup a custom resource in the X resource database, and may permit the user to have all the consoles associated with a given

[uml-devel] Re: Stop the insanity

2005-12-02 Thread Michael Richardson
> "Jeff" == Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> I'm sending this mail out to everyone that I can find who has had Jeff> the UML stubs compiled in unexpected ways, resulting in crashing. Jeff> I'd like testing of the patch below on as many gcc versions as Jeff> possible

[uml-devel] Re: Stop the insanity

2005-12-02 Thread Michael Richardson
> "Antoine" == Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antoine> Thanks for taking a stab at sorting out this gcc madness. I had Antoine> to apply it by hand on top of -rc3 (I then tried -rc4 too): (but Antoine> since no UML patches went into rc4 I guess it's just an offset

[uml-devel] Re: Stop the insanity

2005-12-02 Thread Michael Richardson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.uml.devel as well. > "Antoine" == Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antoine> Thanks for taking a stab at sorting out this gcc madness. I had Antoine> to apply it by hand on top of -rc3

[uml-devel] Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Richardson
ebp aa: c3 ret -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] pa

[uml-devel] Re: merge status

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Richardson
ublish a git tree? -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debi

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Richardson
o moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GNU/Linux using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [ -BEGI

[uml-devel] 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Richardson
r is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GNU/Linux using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [ -

[uml-devel] Re: guest process core dump panics kernel

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Richardson
>>>>> "Blaisorblade" == Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Blaisorblade> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 20:44, Michael Richardson Blaisorblade> wrote: >> This is with a host: Linux marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca 2.6.12.3 #7 >>

[uml-devel] guest process core dump panics kernel

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Richardson
ailed, errno = 9 -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GNU/L

[uml-devel] multicast on loopback: mcast networking at the cottage

2005-07-25 Thread Michael Richardson
or 224.0.0.0/4 on all of their interfaces. Maybe that should be automatic? I think that applications that are multicast aware are supposed to figure out which interfaces that they want to bind to anyway, so they should not be confused by the multiple routes. - -- ] Michael Richardson Xel

Re: [uml-user] Re: [uml-devel] Re: Problems about fork-not-clone

2005-07-14 Thread Michael Richardson
rn off the scheduler when debugging. It just gets in my way when I'm single stepping for 2 hours at a time :-) -- ] Michael Richardson Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON | firewalls [ ] mcr @ xelerance.com Now doing IPsec training, see |net architect[ ] http://www.sande

[uml-devel] debugging skas kernels

2005-04-09 Thread Michael Richardson
son I can't just "attach" the process? Could we make "debug" or "gdb" command line cause a pause() in the code, near startup? I'll do that and submit a patch if there isn't something I'm missing. - -- ] Michael Richardson

[uml-devel] Re: Switching uml_utilities to public CVS and no-maintainer model

2005-03-10 Thread Michael Richardson
7;t recall who volunteered to do that work. Blaisorblade> Nobody volunteered actually... IIRC, your featureful Blaisorblade> changes just modularized it and allowed part of it to Blaisorblade> be used in uml_netjig, right? Yes. - -- ] Michael Richardson Xele

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-12 Thread Michael Richardson
d when a stat() is made, it returns the "right" answer. (so tar/mkjffs, etc. get the right answer) Used in debian a lot. http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/fakeroot Blaisorblade> Yes, that's because it turns the console to raw mode (don't ask me why). Because

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-11 Thread Michael Richardson
le descriptors, hence they controlling tty sends the kill Well, usually, once the system is properly initialized, ^C does nothing. If you get a kernel panic/hang, I usually have to use kill from another window. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Mich

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-10 Thread Michael Richardson
hosts. Rob> Is this a binary, or a build script? (Do you have a URL?) Build script. www.openswan.org/code/ Get yourself 500Mb of disk space, cp testing/utils/umlsetup-sample.sh umlsetup.sh vi umlsetup.sh make uml You need to set "KERN=26" if using a 2.6 kernel.

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-09 Thread Michael Richardson
Rob> than loopback, doesn't need swap, doesn't need module Yes, it does need swap if you intend to run gcc. I suggest that you might want to try the UML image system in the Openswan builds. It generates everything you need. It has been used with 2.6.9+ guests, on 2.4 and 2.6

Re: [uml-devel] IPV6 support

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Richardson
there is IPv6 support in some distros packaging of UML. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device dri

Re: [uml-devel] Re: UML fills /tmp irreversibly (2.6.9-bb4 on SuSE 9.2)

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Richardson
recognize that the processes could be killed, and also to the thread where i complained about having to -CONT a process before it could be -9'ed) - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xeleranc

Re: [uml-devel] synchronous hostfs

2004-12-29 Thread Michael Richardson
tty much everything... However, I'd like to be able to turn it off. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.c

[uml-devel] synchronous hostfs

2004-12-26 Thread Michael Richardson
s human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GNU/Linux using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-16 Thread Michael Richardson
tch each have their own poll(2)-loop. That's because the uml_switch is significantly simpler. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.s

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Richardson
dmin/ctl UML_admin_DATA=/tmp/umlyntoYX.d/admin/data OK netjig> - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |d

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Richardson
-) - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GNU

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Richardson
l my UMLs up to single-user prompt, swsusp them, and restore swsusp each time instead of booting them. That may be a larger win for me. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Richardson
. Further, remember that you may want to single step the packet sources, because, you may spend *HOURS* in the debugger (with the UML in question). That's hard with the method you proposed. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Ri

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Richardson
. We put the interfaces in two places right now... Best would be if a refactored uml_switch exported an interface that replaced daemon_user.c :-) - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Richardson
nd uml_netjig share back end code. uml_switch has none of the above things, only the same port.c code. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Richardson
27;t use the pcap transport. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson,Xelerance Corporation, Ottawa, ON|net architect[ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/mcr/ |device driver[ ] panic("Just another Debian GN

[uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-04 Thread Michael Richardson
on how uml_netjig was (and continues to be) used. We invoke about 170 tests every night on the Openswan code base. some use as many as 7 UMLs connected via uml_netjig to get the job done. - -- ] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [ ] Michael R