[ltt-dev] Feedback on the lttng.org website

Gregory Haskins gregory.haskins at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 15:34:46 EDT 2009


Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Gregory Haskins (gregory.haskins at gmail.com) wrote:
>   
>> Gregory Haskins wrote:
>>     
>>> Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> * Gregory Haskins (gregory.haskins at gmail.com) wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> I am thinking this can all be done as a live-cd anyway, which would be
>>>>> compatible with everything (qemu, kvm, bare-metal, whatever).  We can
>>>>> include a .pdf (or something) that pops up when the system boots (I
>>>>> already have it so it auto-logs into the "lttng-demo" account.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW: I've talked to the studio devs and I now know how to fix the kernel
>>>>> issue.  So I am going to try to get a 2.6.30 based kernel (patched with
>>>>> LTT, of course) installed into the image.
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Great !
>>>>
>>>> As soon as you have this, we'll add a link on the lttng website and
>>>> create a news entry.
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Ok, I have it all running properly now.  Unfortunately there is an issue
>>> with aufs+v2.6.30 such that I could not use a live-cd image, so I had to
>>> use a vmware image for now.
>>>       
>> I just realized that I can also build a plain "disk-image" (in addition
>> to vmware or live-cd types), and I have a sneaking suspicion that this
>> image may be more directly KVM friendly.  Therefore, let me test out
>> this option before we post the vmdk based link.
>>
>>     
>
> OK, I'll wait to hear from you. Indeed, the easier it get for people to
> just run a single command to boot it, the most attractive it will
> become.
>   

I confirmed that it does in fact work quite nicely with KVM.  Here is a
wiki pointer with instructions on how to use it.

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/LTTng-Live-Demonstration

Regards,
-Greg

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