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1.3.1 - 12/23/2001
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Added both a Reboot and Halt button to the UML Box. Both of these buttons
have an interface to mconsole, and provide clean control of rebooting or
halting a Linux virtual machine. When they fail, Abort does all the clean-up,
but this should be used as a last resort. Sysrq interface will be added next.
Both of these buttons parse the Options entry for the first instance of umid,
and use this to identify the Linux virtual machine, so this value can be
changed to control a different running machine with these buttons.
Added a new stage button in the Yard Box called Copy. Create is now Copy, and
the uml_exclusively and genext2fs behavior are handled by Create, this is
much nicer because a new filsystem type can be created without having to wait

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<p>
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<p>
"Options"&nbsp;&nbsp;Enter uml command-line options like: mem=64,
devfs=nomount.</p>
"Options"&nbsp;&nbsp;Enter uml command-line options like: <code>mem=64,
devfs=nomount</code>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The <code>umid</code> option is used by
the Reboot and Halt button to determine which Linux virtual machine is
running.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many different machines can be controlled by submitting
each
machine with a different name, and then changing the umid when control is
required for a different machine with these two buttons.
</p>
<p>
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<p>
"Abort"&nbsp;&nbsp;Abort user-mode-linux kernel processes.</p>
"Reboot"&nbsp;&nbsp;Passes the reboot command to the mconsole to reboot the
Linux virutal machine.
<p>
"Halt"&nbsp;&nbsp;Passes the halt command to the mconsole to halt the
Linux virtual machine.
<p>
"Abort"&nbsp;&nbsp;Abort user-mode-linux kernel processes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Should
be used as a last resort when Halt fails.</p>
<p><P align="left"><b>
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<p>
20.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Press Continue and observe what happens.&nbsp;&nbsp;Root users should have
made the original filesystem with genext2fs, if not, they need to go
through steps 12-16 again after entering <code>genext2fs -z -r0</code> in the
Filesystem Box.&nbsp;&nbsp;Do step 16.
Set the staging behavior to user defined, and choose the Create check button
if you are a normal user or if you are root and created the root_fs in stages
12-16 with genext2fs, otherwise, root needs to choose the Check, Links & Deps,
Copy, and Create check boxes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Press Continue and observe what
happens.&nbsp;&nbsp;Do step 16.
<P>
21.&nbsp;&nbsp;Can we create a different filesystem type
for the root filesystem we just created?&nbsp;&nbsp;
for the root filesystem we just altered?&nbsp;&nbsp;
Enter <code>genromfs</code> to create a romfs filesystem.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Set the staging behavior to user defined, turn on the Create check button,
Set the staging behavior to user defined if this hasn't already been done,
turn on the Create check button,
and press the Continue button.&nbsp;&nbsp;Assuming you've left the
ARS open, press the UML button so that the UML box closes and reopens, and you
will notice that your fs has _romfs appended to it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Try it out.
&nbsp;&nbsp;
You may
notice complaints on boot-up about ioctl.save, to remove these complaints you
could create a replacement ioctl.save, edit the template, re-create the
filesystem, and test again.
could create a replacement ioctl.save, edit and save the changes to the
template, re-create the filesystem, and test again.
<p>
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Although genext2fs only allows a normal user to create a UID/GID 0 root
filesystem up to a maximum size of 8192k, this program exceeds this barrier by
taking advantage of the unique characteristics of user-mode-linux, allowing
normal users to explore things they never could before&nbsp;&nbsp;
normal users to explore things they never could before.&nbsp;&nbsp;
User-mode-linux is used to boot up a root_fs helper, the program then
communicates with the user linux system via expect to automatically
create a UID/GID 0 filesystem from the files copied over from the