On 1/9/06, Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 15:03:40 +0530, Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli wrote: > > I have read a lot about about User Mode Linux, But I have a > > fundamental doubt (Maybe this is *very* basic). (When I use the term > > "Kernel", I mean the Guest Kernel - not the Host kernel). Every time I > > read about Installing UML, the HOWTO asks me to download & install a > > patch for a particular kernel version. But from 2.6 onwards, UML has > > been integrated as the "um" Arch right? So do I have to install this > > patch to run UML? or is it enough to just do a "make config ARCH=um" > > .... > This document addresses relevant issues. Hope this may help... http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/asci/uml/2.6.6uml.html Regards Nauman > User-mode-linux has it's own mailing list. You can find out about it at > user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net. There you will get better answers. > > Also if you have read that page, you'd find that: > > These are the 2.6 patches, for 2.6 kernels earlier than 2.6.9; starting > from that version, an up-to-date UML is included in the kernel itself, > so you might probably use an unpatched 2.6 kernel to build UML. > > and also: > > If you need to get some later bugfixes / UML patches for 2.6.9 and later > kernels, you can check out on the home page of Paolo Giarrusso, also > known as Blaisorblade: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/ > > (and that you will find the appropriate SKAS patch on that page too - > while the guest part was included in mainline, the host part was NOT). > > -- > Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDwmJaRel1vVwhjGURAhHFAKDNbPLNvYZGMRBm3HPTNKaAvbhyqgCggJIV > kggbekdXPh0EEYuklpzJufE= > =lG+V > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
