Re: [uml-user] another small brken link on the nagafix uml website

[Antoine M. <an...@na...>]

Urs Rau wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
> 
> Thank you soo much for the uml files you provide. Sorry it is taking me
> so long to help with feedback for Jeff Dike, so that the uml will also
> work out of the box under fedora 7 and rhel 5. Wish there were more
> hours in the day.
> 
> Sorry back on subject, I was trying to download the config file for the
> 32 bit 2.6.16.43-bs2 kernel from your site.
Ooops, it's there now.

> The page http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/ gives the link as
> http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/kernels/kernel32-2.6.16.43-bs2.config but the
> webserver doesn't return a file under that link. Could you please look
> into it, when time allows? Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback.

> Regards,
> 
> PS: What hardware are you testing your Fedora 7 and CentOS 5 uml files
> and kernels under? I am finding that both my own uml-kernel compilations
> ( no real surprise there - it has bee at least two years since I last
> had to compile and tweak my own kernels) as well as the downloads you
> provide don't work on my boxes.
> 
> I am using the Fedora7 32 bit images on a 2GHz AMD Athlon XP 3200
> fedora7 box under host kernel with 2 GB Ram and plenty disk space.
> 
> and the centos 5 on a 64-bit 2.66 GHz Intel Core2Duo (intel 6700) 8GB
> Ram under the latest centos 5 security update host kernel
> 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5xen SMP.
> 
You want to make sure that your guest kernel has the updates for UML
(some of the host patches are faily recent, certainly more recent than 
2.6.18
- but I have no idea what is in -8.1.4.el5 - the xen patches may 
conflict though?)
I don't know what kernel is shipped with CentOS 5 or Fedora 7...
I have also encountered some problems and normally find that compiling 
the guest kernel on the host (or a setup/system similar to it) tends to 
work best (but not always).
I have also had some problems recently with guest kernels >= 2.6.21, 
where the same guest config works with 2.6.20.x. Both on fully up to 
date hosts (running 2.6.21.5 + skas3)
I haven't had time to investigate further, and doesn't look like I will 
be able to in the near future... sorry.

Antoine