[uml-user] [Fwd: [lugc-talk] RedHat 9 UML Host Kernel Packages]

[David C. <da...@da...>]

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Subject: [lugc-talk] RedHat 9 UML Host Kernel Packages
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:15:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: William R. Lorenz <wr...@ex...>
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To: ta...@cl...

With the Calc II final behind me now, I wanted to post a quick link to
some RedHat 9 host UML kernel packages that I built.  These are made to
use for the host one which you will be running UML instances and include
the skas3 and fairsched patches, most definately required for good hosts.

   ftp://wrl.umlcoop.net/pub/kernel.fairsched+skas3/

These kernel RPM packages (SRPM & RPM) include the following changes from
the most recent stock RedHat-provided kernel for RH9 distributions:

  ( all are included in the changelog w/ specific patch numbers)

  - added support for fairsched & skas3 host patch (User Mode Linux)
  - added defconfig definitions for fairsched & skas3 host patch
  - modified kernel config definitions in SOURCES tree (kernel-2.4*.config)
  - removed O(1) scheduler & threading (based on v2.5) backport
  - removed LDT allocation to allow > 1200 threaded proc backport
  - removed VM tuning patch for CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G special DMA stuff
  - touched up ptrace()/kmod patch to work with UML patches

I hope to also have a RedHat 9 pristine minimal image available via FTP
soon, and I'll also work on building a tutorial for those interested in
getting a UML system running in under 5 minutes and with networking.

This is the under-5 approach to the host kernel, and it also helps to have
the kernel installed with MD5 prints and using manageable packages. :)

More info coming soon!

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