| 1 | Openwrt inside a user mode linux. Why would we even want this many ask? |
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| 3 | There are potentially a lot of reasons, one obvious one to me, it allows |
| 4 | folks to 'kick the tires' without actually flashing up any hardware. It's |
| 5 | also a great environment for porting over packages, you can get a package |
| 6 | fully functional in the uclibc root environment inside a uml without actually |
| 7 | disturbing your 'real router', and then rebuild for a specific target once |
| 8 | it's fully tested. |
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| 10 | This is a first stab at a build that 'just works' and there will be more |
| 11 | cleanup to come. The simple directions are:- |
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| 13 | Configure for uml target |
| 14 | Configure with an ext2 root file system |
| 15 | build it all |
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| 17 | In your bin directory you will find a kernel and an ext2 root file system |
| 18 | when it's finished. Just run it like this:- |
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| 20 | bin/uml/openwrt-uml-vmlinux ubd0=bin/uml/openwrt-uml-ext2.img con=null ssl=null ssl0=fd:0,fd:1 con0=null,fd:2 |
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| 22 | The uml will start, and eventually the serial console of the uml will be at your |
| 23 | console prompt. If you would like it in xterms, substitute con=xterm and con0=xterm. |
| 24 | No networking is configured, but, it's a starting point. The resulting file system |
| 25 | has just enough free space to start kicking the tires and playing in the world of |
| 26 | 'embedded routers' along with all the resource restrictions that come with that |
| 27 | world. |
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| 29 | To configure networking and more, refer to the user mode linux documentation online. |
| 30 | A quick start goes along this line. install the uml-utilities packages so you have |
| 31 | the uml switch in and running, then add a command param to your uml start like this |
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| 33 | eth0=daemon,00:01:01:01:01:01,unix,/<your uml switch control socket here> |
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| 35 | With that in, and uml networking actually functional (can be a challenge at times), |
| 36 | you should be able to ifconfig the interface and talk to the host side, or, if you |
| 37 | bridged the uml switch to your host network, you should be able to run udhcp and be |
| 38 | away with networking off to the world. Again, if you are unfamiliar with uml and |
| 39 | uml networking, please read the docs and how-to stuff available on the net. It does |
| 40 | take some fiddling to get it started and working right the first time, but after that, |
| 41 | it opens up a whole new world of virtual machines. |
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| 45 | http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ |
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