[uml-devel] skas, block devices

[uml-devel] skas, block devices

[Victor]

I am fairly new to uml so please excuse me if this is not the place to
put my questions, or if these questions are already answered.
I searched a bit but didn't found what I was looking for.

1. skas:
What about including it into the UML-patch. This way there would be only
one patch to apply and the source could just be copied to have to trees
(one as host, one uml).
A nicer solution would be the possibility to create a uml out of the
source by using a different config file, but I don't know about
conflicts between static drivers and driver modules or uml / host linux.

Is there a roadmap for skas4?


2. block devices:
A nice feature would be the possibility to use disk dumps as a block
device. It would help to test automatic installations or distros which
rely on normal filesystems or device. Something like "linux
hda=hda-dump" would save some ubdX.

My favourite use case would the transfer of my harware linux
router/firewall into a uml environment. I could do it with udbS




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Re: [uml-devel] skas, block devices

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Victor wrote:

> 1. skas:
> What about including it into the UML-patch. This way there would be only
> one patch to apply and the source could just be copied to have to trees
> (one as host, one uml).

I think very few are using the exact same source tree for the host and the 
UML.

> A nice feature would be the possibility to use disk dumps as a block
> device. It would help to test automatic installations or distros which
> rely on normal filesystems or device. Something like "linux
> hda=hda-dump" would save some ubdX.

If ubd supports partitioning this should work straigt away as it is using
the hdX emulation mode of ubd. If not you need to dump each partition
separately.

Regards
Henrik



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