Hi..
> Hello,
> I'm pretty new to kernel development and would like to setup a ideal
> dev system for playing
> around.
I highly recommend Qemu. UML is nice, but you can consider itself as
another "architecture" i.e some low level functions are different from
the real i386/x86-64 ones. Qemu is a complete machine emulator, so you
are give more or less exact simulation and you are using exactly same
low level functions.
If you plan to buy a new machine for development, then, how about going for a processor
with virtualization extenstions (Intel VT/AMD-V) ? They will enable you to run KVM/Xen/VMWare etc better. I'm not sure whether (k)qemu has support for hardware virtualization though...
CMIIW.
Best regards,
Pranav
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CMIIW.
Best regards,
Pranav
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