[uml-user] Starting UML with a daemon

[Doug L. <dl...@ho...>]

I have a daemon that I would like to use to start and stop UML instances.
It invokes a script which assigns some PTYs to screens and then invokes
the linux instance in the 0 screen. The con0 device is redirected to the =
0
screen, con1 and con2 to respective screens and this all works hunky dory
from a command line.

Where I run into problems is when my daemon tries to invoke the script. I
have tested the script without linux using just a bash session and
everything comes up as expected. The problem is in linux. My educated
guess is that it is not finding itself running in a terminal it likes
(consoltype answers 'serial' under daemon control) prior to starting the
console driver and fails silently (I guess you would if you couldn't
figure out how to do I/O, but perhaps linux is over-analyzing at this
point).

Anybody conquered this problem? I have tried every combination including
sticking a /bin/bash -c in front of the linux invocation (which, again,
works fine from an interactive session, but fails under the daemon).

Thanks for your time and consideration

P.S.

uml_mconsole seems to have the same problem, so maybe this is a common
J.D. coding idiom. I confess I have only glanced at the code, as I have m=
y
own pressing issues to deal with.

Thanks