uml_mconsole — attach to the management console of a user-mode Linux kernel
Contents
Commands
version Prints the UML version number.
halt Shuts down the UML system immediately, without syncing disks or cleanly shutting down swap
space.
reboot Reboots the UML system immediately, without syncing disks or cleanly shutting down swap space.
log string
Cause UML to log string to the kernel log.
cad Invokes the Control-Alt-Delete handler.
sysrq letter
Performs the SysRq action controlled by letter.
stop Pauses UML. UML will do nothing until the 'go' command is issued.
go Resumes execution after a 'stop' command.
config device
Adds a new device to the virtual machine, or queries the configuration of an existing device.
It takes one argument, which is either the device to add, with the same syntax as the kernel
command line, or the name of an existing device. For example:
(mconsole)
configubd3=root_fs_debian22
OK
(mconsole)
configubd3
OK root_fs_debian22
remove Deletes a device from the virtual machine. Its argument is the name of the device to be
removed. In the case of the ubd driver, the removed block device must not be mounted, swapped
on, or otherwise open, and in the case of the network driver, the device must be down.
(mconsole)
removeubd3
OK
Description
This manual page documents briefly the uml_mconsole command.
This manual page was written for the DebianGNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
have a manual page.
uml_mconsole is a program to connect to the management console of a user-mode Linux kernel. The UML
management console is a low-level interface to the kernel, somewhat like the i386 SysRq interface. Since
there is a full-blown operating system under UML, there is much greater flexibility possible than with
the SysRq mechanism.
Name
uml_mconsole — attach to the management console of a user-mode Linux kernel
Options
socket The pathname of the socket to which to connect. This is printed when UML boots, for example:
mconsole initialized on /tmp/umlNJ32yL/mconsole
In this example, you would start uml_mconsole like this:
uml_mconsoleumlNJ32yLcommand Any of the commands listed in the “COMMANDS” section.
See Also
linux(1) The UserModeLinux-HOWTO(linktoURLhttp://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html)
Synopsis
uml_mconsole [socket] [command ...]
