Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 23:17:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 23:17:28 -0400 Received: from mnh-1-08.mv.com ([207.22.10.40]:60681 "EHLO ccure.karaya.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 23:17:22 -0400 Message-Id: <200104090429.XAA02621@ccure.karaya.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: user-mode port 0.40-2.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 23:29:07 -0500 From: Jeff Dike Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ pid file. The name can be set with the '-umid=' 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/