From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Which version to use
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:29:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608082029.53613.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY7-F8B837FF733995C731DEAA94540@phx.gbl>
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 06:52, Alejandro Liu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is a "current" version of UML to use as a guest? I am currently using
> the one that comes with the vanilla 2.6.17.6 kernel and trying to use
> hostfs as root and found a number of bugs.
> Of course I went ahead and fixed those bugs but I don't know if I should
> send the patches somewhere
Yes, thanks. To this list, Jeff Dike and me (and if you want LKML, but don't
do that if you're shy or not entirely sure).
> or if these bugs were fixed in some "secret"
> development version of UML.
No. hostfs is _at the moment_ unmaintained. There is a rewrite of hostfs
(based on the new externfs), but it is nowhere near merging (it's under slow
development since at least an year).
You can find the development tree here:
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/patches.html
> PS: Actually I did not set out to do bug hunting, I was just adding some
> features to hostfs that I wanted to use.
You could maybe post them too.
> The bug fixing was just a side
> effect.
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2006-08-08 4:52 [uml-devel] Which version to use Alejandro Liu
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