maxonthegit/netkit-uml-filesystem

Filesystem image, build files, and docs for usage with Netkit UML virtual machines

netkit-uml-filesystem's Issues

Improve filesystem build scripts

Filesystem build scripts are currently designed to create a single filesystem image. If a user wants to create an alternative image, she has to remove (or rename/move elsewhere) the existing one before initiating a new build process.
The scripts could be improved in order to make creation of different filesystem images easier.

Also check $(<file) statements in the filesystem's Makefile.devel: they do not seem to work.

Cannot build the filesystem

I've the following errors when I trt to build the filesystem:

$ sudo make -f Makefile.devel  filesystem
======= Downloading base packages... =====
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Found additional required dependencies: insserv libbz2-1.0 libdb5.1 libslang2 
I: Found additional base dependencies: libnfnetlink0 libsqlite3-0 
I: Checking component main on http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian...
E: Couldn't find these debs: libxapian15
make: *** [debian-base-packages-sid-i386.tgz] Error 1

ospf6d fails to install routes into the FIB

Zebra fails to install routes learned via OSPFv3 messages into the FIB. The reported error is:
netlink-cmd error: invalid argument, type=RTM_NEWROUTE (24), seq=6, pid=0
Routes are received and recognized by zebra, but fail to be marked as FIB routes.
Upgrading to Quagga 0.99.18 from the Debian repository seems to solve the problem.

pdns-recursor restart fails

This is due to an apparently incorrect reference to the pidfile in the init script.
Can be fixed by using:
sed -i 's/SOCKETDIR/PIDDIR/' /etc/init.d/pdns-recursor

Incorrect filesystem release

Release number is misreported in version F5.2 of the filesystem image during virtual machine startup.

Consider introducing Kerberos support

Consider introducing basic kerberos utilities in the filesystem:

• krb5-kadmin-server
• krb5-kdc
• krb5-clients
• krb5-rsh
• pam-krb5

This has been requested in a past email: http://list.dia.uniroma3.it/pipermail/netkit.users/2010-March/000589.html

Early startup-time scripts

Consider the possibility to support launching host-side scripts right after the lab startup and/or before its shutdown (useful, e.g., to set up a delayer).

Also, introduce support for /etc/rcX.d entries that are executed before anything else.

netem fails to work

tc qdisc add dev lo root netem delay 100ms

This statement fails to work because q_netem.so is neither statically linked into tc nor available in the filesystem image. Can be confirmed by using strace.