How to create rootfs for user mode Linux on Fedora 18?

taco_truck_tom

I want to create a rootfs to be used with an UML kernel and be able to use the internet. I was using febootstrap with packages: bash , coreutils , net-tools , iputils . After using febootstrap-supermin-helper I got my rootfs but when trying to boot it with UML I get these errors: [ 4.340000] systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. [ 4.340000] systemd[1]: dbus.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing...

Originally asked by Peter on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Maybe you could try PRoot ( http://proot.me ) as an alternative to UML. Both are based on ptrace(2), although PRoot does not require any setup to get internet access from the guest system: host$ proot -R ./fedora-18-x86_64/ bash guest$ wget http://google.fr ... where "./fedora-18-x86_64/" is the content of a rootfs downloaded from http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/

Full answer by user2698781: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/97315 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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