Hello, A bit confused with "free Linux/Ubuntu VMs". Do you mean you looking for VM image ( to directly run your tests ) or an emulator to create VMs locally and play around. For the first, I have not tried with. Probably vmware images can be found at : http://www.osboxes.org/vmware-images/ But, if you are looking for emulators, I would say Xen and Virtualbox. I use them for most of my development for linux kernel related work items. To start with, I would suggest you to start with Virtualbox. Its easy to begin w.r.t. configuration, installation and other items. Link : https://www.virtualbox.org/ Regards, ~Praveen. On 14 March 2017 at 15:45, François <fser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:18:33PM +0800, Freeman Zhang wrote: >> On 3/14/17 12:04 PM, Balaji Barmavat wrote: >> > Anybody's has any VM's links to download, for practice kernel >> programming? >> >> Well, I am using QEMU system emulator, for it's easier to connect to GDB >> debugging and itself handles bootloader thing. You can set all things up >> by one line parameters, really tidy. >> >> The disadvantage is that I've been told system running in QEMU is slow, >> but for kernel programming that wouldn't be the problem, will it? >> >> What about others? > > Depending on what you're working on, you can also use User Mode Linux > (UML) [1] which produces a elf, that you can run easily on top of your > existing linux distro. > Basically, you have to choose the "um" arch when compiling your kernel. > > [1] http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
