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Re: [opensuse-kernel] openSUSE - User Mode Linux
  • From: Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 21:50:56 +0530
  • Message-id: <AANLkTi=SKEiiJxbh+KZdsQZ67tZon_WR+zFvz0jeja8f@mail.gmail.com>
I am trying to see what user mode linux is and trying to see how one
can use userspace tools like callgrind, valgrind to debug the kernel.
I followed the instructions in the UML wiki
(http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ ) . I found that after
compiling the kernel sources (Linus' tree) with ARCH=um option, I need
to download a root filesystem which is based of fedora. Instead of
downloading that I would like to know if there is any other root
filesystem that I can use which is based on SUSE.

I have not looked into the wiki page in detail to find out how I can
create my custom root filesystem image for UML. But before that I
wanted to check if there is any openSUSE based root image, that I can
just download and use.
 Well, I think you can take just any root image - preferably built for
virtual environments. So you can either do the installation yourself or
just get some image from SUSE Studio...


oh okay. Initially I misunderstood about HPFS and thought it is the
filesystem that should be used for the usermode linux rootfs.

For some reason KVM on Factory seem to be not finishing installation
on a VM and I have a slow network which timesout against susestudio.
So, I tried creating a root filesystem on my own and most results seem
to point to a debootstrap package, which is not available in openSUSE.

But I believe I have reached a point where I can search and learn
myself and proceed further without any problems. Thanks for your help.

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Sankar P
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