From: Geoff T. <ge...@ge...> - 2003-05-13 20:22:37
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Hi all, Just sounding out in case there is someone out there who's already been looking at UML hosting on mandrake 9.1 systems? I'm looking at putting a few UMLs together and would like the host to remain, as much as is possible, within the padded walls of mandrake's urpmi-based environment and pre-patched kernel assumptions. In particular, I'm wondering about producing a modified kernel RPM for the host that completely matches the stock kernel RPM *except* for the addition of SKAS support. Doable? Done? Background, whys, wherefores, etc: I'm reluctant to build a kernel from scratch for this system because it is administered graphically on a daily basis by someone who does not want their GUI admin fluff to start doing anything "differently". Eg. hotplug, GUI-based autodetection tools, graphic admin of lilo, urpmi control of kernels, etc. With mandrake's automatic handling of so much kernel, kernel-module, and "/boot" stuff, this would be too easy for me to inadvertently sod up using vanilla kernel sources. On the other hand, I would *really* prefer to have SKAS working than have this running in TT mode. I've heard that one day Jeff and Linus are going to have an iotcl() to replace /proc/mm and the world will be a truly good place, but I'm wondering how it can be made livable in the mean time. :-) So, I've seen various discussions going on about this w.r.t. Redhat systems, but was curious if anyone had tackled this on mandrake's latest? If I've already missed discussion about this - apologies, any reference would be most welcome. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe ge...@ge... http://www.geoffthorpe.net/ |