UML (user mode linux) for Fedora

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:34:46AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 06:31:10PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > >>Le jeudi 08 août 2013 à 22:35 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
> > >>>I wonder (idly) if anyone has every tried to package UML for Fedora,
> > >>>and if there is anything in the packaging guidelines that would stop
> > >>>UML being packaged as a regular package?
> > >>
> > >>By regular package, you mean using a separate spec/srpm from the kernel
> > >>spec ?
> > >
> > >I'm only idly speculating, but yes, probably.
> > 
> > I maintain uml_utilities for fedora. It needs a tunctl conflict
> > resolved, but otherwise should work?
> 
> That's just utilities, not the actual binary.

Yep, since UML is basically just another special kernel build, I always
had the impression that you'd have to convince the kenrel RPM maintainers
to add another sub-RPM containing the UML build for it to get into Fedora.

Does UML kernel even build on Fedora these days ? I tried to build it
a year or so back and found that it had ben broken by GCC/LD update
and no one upstream showed any interest in fixing it. So I rather
considered UML to be dead after that experiance.

Daniel
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