Re: [uml-devel] Entropy on boot

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Warren
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:19:08PM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:02:36PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > That would never make it anywhere near mainline, so you would have a > > choice of dumping that into every UML pool you build or fixing your > > filesystems to use the r

Re: [uml-devel] Entropy on boot

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Warren
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:16:38PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > Are you using UML's hwrng driver? Did it not help? Unless I've missed something, that doesn't solve the problem for an out-of-the-box Linux distro, which expects to read from /dev/random. Paul

[uml-devel] Entropy on boot

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Warren
We've recently prepared a filesystem image for the latest Debian distribution, and hit a problem with it hanging on starting Apache2. We traced this to a lack of entropy to feed /dev/random, causing the Apache's startssl to block. Chris Lightfoot has developed this patch to feed the guest's entro

Re: [uml-devel] problem booting uml without xterms

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Warren
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:34:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to boot uml on a server, and I don't want to have to have X > installed to do it, so I want to boot without the xterm consoles. > > For the life if me I can't figure out the right con=* command line params > and/or ge

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] uml help __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)

2005-03-20 Thread Paul Warren
[ trimmed cc to just -devel list] On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:49:38PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > Paul Warren said that there is a leak in 2.4 UML related to hostfs stuff.. > and > I already saw this message from some 2.4 recent UMLs. I hope Paul Warren can > explain what he saw

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] uml help __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)

2005-03-17 Thread Paul Warren
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:13:37PM -0300, itamar wrote: > In the host I have 512 mb of ram > > I am running the guest kernel with mem=256M > Do you make significant use of hostfs filesystems? Paul --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Produc

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] 2.6.9-bs6 released

2005-02-06 Thread Paul Warren
Hi, On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:51:15PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > Changes from -bb4 to -bs5: > * fixed a problem of which probably Paul Warren suffered... UML stopped early > at boot on a few system... what Bodo Stroesser fixed was a problem when using > the 2.6 host headers an

Re: [uml-devel] bridge query

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Warren
[ follow up to -user only ] On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0530, Adil Mujeeb, Noida wrote: > what is the use of attaching the host interface in the bridge? Without > attaching the host interface in the bridge we can simply bring down the host > interface with ip 0.0.0.0 & assign the host int