Re: [uml-user] Crash vs. hang vs. no network == no UML

[Robin L. P. <rlp...@di...>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:40:03PM -0400, Allen Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 01:48 am, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > It would, of course, be nice if tuntap worked for me, but in the
> > meantime this is quite sufficient for my needs.
> 
> Are you using tuntap or the switch daemon?  If you are using the
> switch daemon from the default debian uml-utilities package, you
> need to specify on the uml command line:
>
> 	eth0=daemon,,unix,/var/run/uml-utilities/uml_switch.ctl

Yep, that seems to work, as has the advantage of working with
downloadable UML kernels (the ones off of
http://www.stearns.org/uml/) whereas I can't get SLIRP to work with
any but the ones I've made myself.

I'm trying to write an easy how-to, you see, so downloadable kernels
== good.

-Robin

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