Well, I'm pretty new to all this too, but I know a little bit about VMWare. If you like you can have VMWare create a single file on your current filesystem that acts as the harddrive for the VMWare machine. There are ways to access the hosts FS from within VMWare and the other way around, but I haven't set that up myself. Haven't used Bochs, but I would assume it is not that different. You might want to look at UML (User Mode Linux). UML is a linux kernel compiled to run along side an existing one. It also can use a file on it's host's filesystem as a harddrive, but you're dealing with a different kernel when you run UML, so depending on what you're hacking on that might be a problem. Also from what I've been reading it can be useful to have a second system hooked up to the developmet system via a serial cable to catch error messages that would otherwise be lost, or have to be written down, but I haven't actually played with this myself either (laptop doesn't have a serial cable). Well I hope this helps a bit, maybe some more experienced hackers will shed some additional light on the subject. ~Jake B On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:23:50 +0100, Erik Larsson <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm really new on the kernel hacking. I've written a small OS to at > simple Motorola 68xxx system. And that about all. Now I'm training to > become a good kernel hacker. My first step is to try and learn about > drivers. > > My question to you is: > How do you setup your development system? Is it best to have two > computers, one to code on and one to test on. Is it easer to use VMWare > or Bochs? If you use VMWare/Bochs how do yo setup a good system with two > linux kernels running on the same computer? Is it possible to "share" > the same file system or do I have to use two different partitions? > > Thanks very much in advance. > Erik Larsson > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
