Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:46:43 -0400 | From | Jeff Dike <> | Subject | Re: A proposal - binary |
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:49:13PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > >Why might you have to do that? > > take this with a grain of salt, I'm not saying the particular versions I'm > listing would require this > > if your new guest kernel wants to use some new feature (SKAS3, time > virtualization, etc) but the older host kernel didn't support some system > call nessasary to implement it, you may need to upgrade the host kernel to > one that provides the new features.
OK, yeah.
Just making sure you weren't thinking that the UML and host versions were tied together (although a modern distro won't boot on a 2.6 UML on a 2.4 host because UML's TLS needs TLS support on the host...).
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