On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:11 AM, pradeep singh <pradeep.rautela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Having a seperate PC for only testing purpose is really not going to benefit much in term of time as well money ...
When we have a solution like xen, kvm as well vmware, use it but as said by pradeep it depends on for what you want to do ...
i use xen to test my kernel changes ...
Well it depends on what your goal is.On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Stephen Roberts
<sroberts82k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I'm interested to hear about your development environments. Do you use a
> seperate PC to your development one for to use for testing your kernel? Or
> is the work you are doing high enough level to be stable enough to run your
> new kernel on your development machine? My main interest is turnaround time
> - ie. from compiling my kernel to seeing your debug out over serial or in a
> logfile - to minimise this.
If you want to run new kernels and no low level real hardware
interaction, you can always run your test kernels in a VM.
As far as serial logging is concerned I use VMware Workstation 6.5.1.
It is certainly fun to control a guest kernel from a Linux host.
Also I avoid compiling kernels in guest OS. Simply compile on host and
then scp/copy the kernel+initrd+/lib/modules/$(kernel_version) to the
guest os, taking care of the links.
But if you have a PC to spare ... bring it on! :-).
Try to keep your dev and test machine separate if not physically
atleast logically in a VM. You ll save a lot of time.
Having a seperate PC for only testing purpose is really not going to benefit much in term of time as well money ...
When we have a solution like xen, kvm as well vmware, use it but as said by pradeep it depends on for what you want to do ...
i use xen to test my kernel changes ...
HTH
Cu,
--Pradeep
> Thanks,
> Stephen
>
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