[CentOS] UML under Centos5

Fri Apr 20 19:33:36 UTC 2007
Ron Yorston <rmy at tigress.co.uk>

Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
>Has anyone been able to get UserModeLinux to work under CentOS5?   I've
>got an image which works fine under CentOS4.4 but when I try it under
>CentOS5 then it hangs just after mounting root
>
>   kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
>   EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
>   VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.

I've just tried a similar thing with the same result:  a UML setup that
worked under CentOS 4.4 fails in 5.

>Now, I'd read this was a known issue because of a UML bug which newer
>host kernels exercised, so I downloaded the 2.6.21-rc7 kernel and tried
>using that as a guest, but still no luck.

I suspect it might be related to this Fedora Core 6 bug:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225583

I see the same failure on an FC6 host.

Ron