Re: UML not maintained anymore?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Mar 17 2017 - 12:23:25 EST


On Tue 2017-02-28 16:28:11, Natale Patriciello wrote:
> It seems there is no interest in fixing bugs (such as [1]). Moreover,
> same guest filesystem (same host os, distribution, etc.) on two
> different machines (i7-2630 the first, i7-7700HQ the second) yield
> different results, with crashes and corruption of filesystem in the
> modern computer. So, can I consider UML as a legacy thing in the Linux
> kernel? With what I can replace it (I'm doing TCP research, and I focus
> on the networking stack)?

Well.. if it worked before and does not work now, that's a regression
and will be fixed. Bisect would be useful.

If it never worked on new CPUs, that's different situation...
Pavel
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