Hey, Check out qemu. It's an open source system emulator that seems to be growing pretty fast in features and popularity. http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ It takes a kernel and a root filesystem image and runs in user space. Ciao, Brian > 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/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
