[User-mode-linux-user] compiling uml in uml

[Lennert B. <bu...@gn...>]

Hi,

I am trying to compile an uml in an uml session and am getting the
following:

[buytenh@dev0 linux]$ make menuconfig
arch/um/Makefile:1: arch/um/Makefile-um: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `arch/um/Makefile-um'.  Stop.
[buytenh@dev0 linux]$

Funny thing is that it thinks it's running on an um processor. Or
something. Another thing that goofs up is that my bash login scripts add
~/bin.`uname -m` to my path, which works perfectly fine on
{i386,sparc,sun4u} machines, but not on any of the virtual machines here
(quite a few already...)

Now this is of course easy to kludge around, but wouldn't it be saner if
the uml 'kernel' just returned the name of the host architecture to 'uname
-m' instead of just 'um'? There's not really supposed to be anything that
distinguishes this virtual machine from a real i386, right?


(Apart from some NFS unmount hangs (which might be in stock 2.4.0-test6
too, didn't check) and an occasional kernel panic once a day, these
virtual machines seem to be working remarkably well.)



greetings,
Lennert