From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: battipatisainagendra Bhavaniprasad <sainagendrabhavaniprasad@gmail.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] diffrence between swap partition and swap file?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 18:10:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070528221044.GA9367@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dec0fd580705280707g69b0e966r692a7d8c0fef14a3@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:07:18AM -0400, battipatisainagendra Bhavaniprasad wrote:
> 1.What is the diffrence between swap partition and swap file?
Swapping on a disk partition vs swapping into a file.
> 2.If i create swap file, will it reside in host kernel?
Of course - everything on the system resides in the host kernel.
> 3.Is it possible to create swap partition(disk partition) for UML?
Sure.
> 4.I am trying to mount a file from host kernel to guest kernel.....can any
> one give me a way to do that?
host% uml_mconsole <umid> config ubdb /path/to/host/file
UML# mount /dev/ubdb /mnt
> 5.What is the diffrence between skas0 and skas3?
skas3 requires a patch to the host kernel, skas0 does not, and will
run on a stock host.
OTOH, some operations are faster on a skas3 host.
Jeff
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2007-05-28 14:07 [uml-devel] diffrence between swap partition and swap file? battipatisainagendra Bhavaniprasad
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