On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different >> distros on a single disk and buy a pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives. >> > > Given performance does drop a bit and there can be issues with allocating > hardware, why not use Virtualbox which allows you to run both your base > distro and then as many of the others as your hardware can handle as VMs?
The machine is used for testing PCI and PCI-express boards and their drivers. I don't really trust PCI passthrough (especially when it comes to interrupt handling) enought to do such testing in a VM. IFAICT, it's very rare for customers to use VMs. If customers do start to use VMs, then we'll have to test with VMs also. -- Grant
