Re: [uml-user] sparse files as root images

[richard -r. w. <ric...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM,  <ro...@mm...> wrote:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=$OUTFS bs=1024 count=1 seek=$((20*1024*1024-1))

Does it work if the filesystem is not sparse?

> but I'm having kernel panics (not syncing) whenever I try to run various
> commands inside UML.

Please post the complete panic.

> So far I got kernel panics with top and updatedb.
>
> Please consider that I am able to boot into UML. The trouble begins when
> I'm trying to actually use the beast.
>
> Background:
> kernel.3.1.4, built with defconfig ARCH=um
> host OS = Slackware.13.37
> Guest OS = Slackware.13.37
> Host RAM=256MB
> Guest RAM= mem=128M

What is the exact command line?

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Thanks,
//richard