On Tuesday 04 July 2006 10:50, Jan Rychter wrote: > >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jim> Please forgive me for interpreting without suggesting how to fix, > Jim> but the interpretation might be useful. Is there any chance of > Jim> trying out the 2.6.16 UML kernel on a 2.6.16 host? Version skew, > Jim> particularly backwards, is very plausible as an explanation for > Jim> all of these. > > Is that really the case?
Normally not. A recent UML should work even on a 2.4 kernel. That suggestion (if it has ever been valid, and I doubt this) is only useful to start debugging bugs. For instance, the host may change something, UML then doesn't work (because a bug then reveals itself) and afterwards UML is fixed. At least until the host kernel doesn't change some APIs, supposed stable, that UML uses (and it has happened in 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 because "it wasn't possible to do otherwise" - meanwhile some big bugs where introduced; in 2.6.11 both things were fixed and they discovered it was possible and easy to avoid the breakage). > I was under the impression that the whole point > of UML was to make these things irrelevant and that any recent kernel > would do as a host. > No, there is no easy way to upgrade the host. I use software suspend and > a number of other things and I'm not keen on changing the status quo, as > the current setup kind-of-works after years of upgrading and tinkering. > Jim> Also be sure that the guest and host are similar in wordsize, > Jim> i.e. 32bit vs 64bit. > They are. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
