On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Friday 2009-03-06 19:37, Fred Moyer wrote: >>>> >>>>What is the recommended alternative for testing connection helper modules? >>> >>> Testing them in a real world - perhaps virtual machines though - setup :-) >> >>I've had great success developing and testing with VMWare Fusion on a >>mac laptop. The reboot time on an oops is maybe two minutes, about >>the same as my metal testing server, except lacking the fan noise and >>ability to live on my laptop. > > At least VMware Workstation has the Snapshot feature which cuts the > "reboot" time down to whatever it takes to reread the disk image from disk. > > Avoiding oopses is the best strategy, at which point you can reedit- > compile-reload the module as often as you need without reverting to > a snapshot. In the event of an oops, do you have any suggestions for capturing the stacktrace? My vmware terminal console is 25 rows with no scrollback when it oopses, so I'm only getting half the stack. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
