From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Host kernel requirements for UML
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:39:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050803143957.GB4701@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050803094805.GA6090@in.ibm.com>
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:18:05PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to get a quick answer for a question I had on UML.
> As I understand, UML kernel makes use of host kernel's
> system call interface for its functionality. The questions is, does the
> host kernel need to support *all* system calls or only a subset?
Only a small subset.
> Does UML rely on /proc or any other such filesystems on host?
It looks at /proc/cpuinfo for some information about cmov and xmm support
on the processor.
Jeff
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-03 9:48 [uml-devel] Host kernel requirements for UML Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-03 14:39 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2005-08-03 17:15 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-04 18:22 ` Blaisorblade
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