Management Options

Several options control how you manage UML instances. The following control the location of the MConsole request and notification sockets and the pid file.

• mconsole=notify: socket This specifies the UNIX domain socket that the mconsole driver will send notifications to.

• umid=name This assigns a name to the UML instance, making it more convenient to control with an MConsole client.

• uml_dir=directory This specifies the directory within which the UML instance will put the subdirectory containing its pid file and MConsole control socket. The name of this subdirectory is taken from the umid of the UML instance.

  These two control the behavior of the UML tty logging facility.

• tty_log_dir=directory With tty logging enabled, this specifies the directory within which logging data will be stored.

• tty_log_fd=descriptor This specifies that tty log data should be sent to an already-opened file descriptor rather than a file. For example, adding 10>tty_log tty_log_fd=10 to the UML command line will open file descriptor 10 onto the file tty_log and have all logging data be written to that descriptor.