Re: [uml-user] per-instance tmpfs backed memory file

[Jon F. <jon...@jf...>]

TEMP worked but not TEMPDIR.

THX - Jon

Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Jon Foster
> <jon...@jf...> wrote:
>   
>> I'm kind of new to the UML thing. I've read that every instance of UML
>> creates a temp file that represents the RAM of that instance. Its
>> obvious that putting that in a "tmpfs" would be very good, but I don't
>> want to mount a tmpfs on "/tmp", its used by too many other things and
>> the size restriction would cause problems.
>>
>> I've read a "per-instance" tmpfs can be setup... but nowhere have I seen
>> how that's done. There doesn't appear to be any CLI switches for telling
>> UML where to put the temp file and $TMPDIR doesn't seem to do anything
>> for it.
>>
>> I'm running stock Debian 7 64bit on Intel Xeons, with their supplied UML
>> packages. The UML kernel version is 3.2.54.
>>
>> How can I tell UML to put its temp file somewhere else?
>>     
>
> UML checks the environment variables TMP, TEMP and TEMPDIR.
> Recent UML kernels use /dev/shm.
>
>   

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